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Precautionary principle
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying precautionary-principle. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 2834531-014 : Regulators too often define success negatively, as the avoidance of catastrophe, which makes regulatory experimentation unattractive to them.
- 2834531-015 : Because regulators seek to avoid grounds for criticism, they inevitably adopt an overly cautious posture, which is what the precautionary principle amounts to in practice.
- 2834531-016 : Regulatory caution produces a systematic disconnect between the regulation of an innovation and the commercial and consumer ability to access it.
- 2834531-017 : Faced with disruptive innovation, regulators believe their only options are reckless action, meaning regulation without sufficient facts, or paralysis, meaning doing nothing; in that bind caution beat
- 2834531-018 : Regulatory caution is not neutral: it functions to reinforce the status quo, with the result that new technologies struggle to reach the market in a timely or efficient manner.
- 2834531-030 : In a world where regulatory competition is the new normal, regulators can pay a heavy economic price for being overly cautious or for abandoning the attempt to establish a meaningful basis for regulat