# kaal:claim:2834531-001

**Claim.** The obstacles preventing consumers and entrepreneurs from accessing a workable new technology are frequently not technological limits but human choices embodied in law: legal and regulatory rules prohibit or limit commercial exploitation of, and public access to, new technology.

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

**Holds when.**

- once the main technical problems of a technology have been solved

**Source quote.**

> These obstacles are not the result of technological limitations, but human choice. The law — and other regulations — can often prohibit, or otherwise limit, commercial exploitation of, and public access to, new technology.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), INTRODUCTION, page 3

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Topics.** innovation, economics

**Keywords.** regulatory-barriers, disruptive-technology, market-access, innovation-policy

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