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   "text": "Formal rulemaking is simply too time-consuming for an environment of disruptive innovation; the speed of product innovation alone makes formal rulemaking in the existing infrastructure unworkable.",
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   "text": "Formal rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure is almost always too time consuming, because product innovation moves fast enough that regulations covering an innovative product are obsolete before they are finalized.",
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   "text": "The speed of product innovation allows a new product to reach the market while formal rulemaking, which takes months and often years of procedure, is still occupied with the previous product launch.",
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