Age of De Jure Standard and its Determinants: Dataset linking standard technology areas to economic survey data

This paper discusses factors that relate to the age of valid standards. Unlike patents and copyrights, standards are created without a fixed effective time set by law. A linked dataset is first prepared by connecting the technology categories of the Japanese Industrial Standards—the de jure standards in Japan—to public economic censuses by the Japanese government such as the Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities. The dataset is used for empirical analysis of the relationship between economic factors and age of standards. A notable result is that the "Electronic and Electrical Engineering" classification has a significant negative relationship with the age of standards, which may be explained by the fact that competition and technology divergence contribute to making the age of standards younger.