# kaal:claim:2808132-004

**Claim.** Exponential disruptive innovation has the potential to overwhelm the existing regulatory process entirely, not merely to strain it.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- exponential rates of innovation
- existing institutional rulemaking infrastructure

**Source quote.**

> increase substantially in the rulemaking process.12 In short, exponential disruptive innovation has the potential to overwhelm the existing regulatory process.13

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data* (2016), I. Introduction, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132

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**Failure mode.** Regulatory process overwhelm  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** innovation, regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** regulatory-capacity, disruptive-innovation, regulatory-failure, exponential-growth

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-003

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