# kaal:claim:2831040-030

**Claim.** The pace of innovation is incompatible with existing regulatory approaches that demand comprehensive knowledge as a precondition for regulatory action, because innovation is too decentralized, too fast, and too pervasive.

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

**Holds when.**

- regulatory approaches conditioned on comprehensive prior knowledge

**Source quote.**

> the pace of innovation is incompatible with existing regulatory approaches that demand comprehensive knowledge as a basis for taking regulatory action because innovation is too decentralized, too fast, and too pervasive

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Dynamic Regulation for Innovation* (2016), IV.2 Optimizing Anticipatory Governance, page 19

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

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**Failure mode.** comprehensive knowledge precondition  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** governance-design, citation-and-knowledge, decentralization

**Keywords.** anticipatory-governance, comprehensive-knowledge, decentralization, pacing-problem

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-003

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