# kaal:claim:2834531-035

**Claim.** Regulation should be demand driven, meaning its substantive direction should follow the interests of consumers, and where there is genuine demand for a product or technology it should in principle be permitted.

**Type.** normative  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- where genuine consumer demand for the technology can be shown

**Source quote.**

> If there is a genuine demand for certain products or technologies, then such technologies should, in principle, be permitted.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), A. Data Driven Regulatory Intervention, page 27

**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.** dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** demand-driven-regulation, consumer-interests, permissive-default, regulatory-design

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