# kaal:claim:2808132-043

**Claim.** Regulation is mostly reactive and follows business cycles rather than being proactive; data on venture capital investments lets regulators see where innovation trends are heading and what risks they entail before the disruptive innovation actually materializes.

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

**Holds when.**

- regulators with access to venture capital investment data
- innovation still at the investment rather than deployment stage

**Source quote.**

> Regulation is mostly reactive, following business cycles, rather than proactive. Data on VC investments allows regulators to see where innovation trends are going and the possible risks they entail before disruptive innovation materializes. Should regulators

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data* (2016), VI. Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation, page 37

**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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**Topics.** innovation, dynamic-regulation, research-methods, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** regulatory-timing, venture-capital, anticipatory-rulemaking, risk-identification

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