# kaal:claim:2831040-022

**Claim.** Despite the consensus favoring it, early regulatory intervention in innovation is rare in practice, and regulation mostly fails to keep pace as the innovation evolves and as understanding and use of the technology spreads.

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

**Source quote.**

> In practice, however, early regulatory intervention in innovation is rare. Regulation mostly does not keep pace as the innovation evolves and as the understanding and use of innovative technology spreads

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Dynamic Regulation for Innovation* (2016), IV.1 Remedying the Pacing Problem, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040

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**Failure mode.** early intervention rarely happens  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** innovation

**Keywords.** early-intervention, pacing-problem, regulatory-practice, innovation-diffusion

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