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   "text": "The decline in later stage robotics and drone investment rounds in the United States does not indicate stalled technological development; companies relocate later stage development to other countries because of the regulatory disconnect that exists in the United States.",
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   "text": "There is a systematic disconnect between the facts regulators identify as important and the actual experience and wishes of most consumers.",
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   "text": "A disconnect is emerging between traditional regulatory models and the actual form of contemporary business organizations, so understanding the new organizational forms is a precondition for developing regulatory models suited to a digital age.",
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