# Beneficial innovation

`kaal:entity:beneficial-innovation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `beneficial-innovation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2016 to 2017.

**2016**

- [2740477-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Rulemakers' inability to address the regulatory issues raised by disruptive innovation will generate high levels of legal uncertainty and inconsistency, and that uncertainty inhibits innovation during technological transition periods.
  > Rulemakers' inability to address regulatory issues associated with disruptive innovation will likely generate high levels of legal uncertainty and inconsistency82 that inhibit innovation during technological transition periods
  Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477
- [2808132-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-013) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- The existing regulatory infrastructure cannot sufficiently distinguish beneficial innovation from harmful innovation and therefore cannot harness the beneficial kind.
  > The existing regulatory infrastructure cannot sufficiently distinguish and harness beneficial innovation. Rulemakers' inability to address regulatory issues associated with
  Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132

**2017**

- [2834531-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-008) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- The existing regulatory infrastructure cannot sufficiently distinguish beneficial innovation from other innovation, and therefore cannot harness it.
  > The existing regulatory infrastructure cannot sufficiently distinguish and harness beneficial innovation.
  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

## Verify

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