ABSTRACT
Chapter Eight conducts a controversy study over access to standards and over the right to define quality ‘by algorithm’ or not. As Chinese actors pursue both the fulfilment of international standards and the development of indigenous standards, trials of strength unfold between Chinese and foreign actors around often proprietary, and blackboxed, aeroelastic codes in the simulation tool used for turbine design. Illustrating struggles to gain legitimacy in the world market and in international research networks, and revealing potential limits to reverse engineering, the chapter indirectly also sheds light on colliding modes of innovation and of measuring quality.
