# kaal:claim:2808132-012

**Claim.** The political system is less likely to be able to resolve the challenges of disruptive innovation because the increasing complexity of innovation-driven regulatory issues causes confusion among political and policy makers about rapidly emerging change.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- rapidly emerging and technically complex disruptive change

**Source quote.**

> political system is, however, less likely to be able to deal with the challenges of disruptive innovation because the increasing complexity of innovation-driven regulatory issues causes political and policy makers' confusion over rapidly-emerging disruptive

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data* (2016), III. Disruptive Innovation as a Regulatory Challenge, page 17

**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.** Political complexity paralysis  (family: supervisory-capacity-gap)

**Topics.** economics, innovation

**Keywords.** political-economy, regulatory-complexity, policy-failure, disruptive-innovation

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