Is there an organization responsible for creating these new technologies?
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Scientists and engineers create new technologies or improve them. These groups can be funded by governments, private or public corporations, or any combination thereof. Legally it mostly comes down to who owns the patent, but it’s rarely as simple as any one entity ‘creating’ a new technology, because it’s almost always the culmination of many different inventions and discoveries along the way.
For example the CSIRO (Australian government research agency) is widely credited as “inventing” Wireless LAN aka WiFi. What they really did was essentially figure out a lot of the maths and engineering involved in encoding data in radio transmissions fast enough for a local computer network. Radio itself already existed, as did binary encoding, and GPRS (the first widespread mobile data network) was developed around the same time.
Once the technology is developed, the standards and protocols around the use of that technology for a specific application is developed. This can be created and maintained by a dedicated standards group like the IEEE or ANSI, a single company, or more often a conglomeration of multiple companies (including partners and competitors) working together for their mutual benefit.
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