failure family

innovation chilling

41 claims across 28 works.

• innovation-inhibition: Limiting the use of hard-to-value assets and complex financial products is very unlikely to have positive effects, because the implicit inhibition of
• Regulation SHO hedging constraint: Amendments to Regulation SHO may deny mutual fund advisers certain hedging techniques, making it less likely that mutual funds can attract retail inve
• Permanent transition uncertainty: Rulemakers' inability to address disruptive innovation will generate high levels of legal uncertainty and inconsistency that inhibit innovation during
• Uncertainty induced innovation chilling: Rulemakers' inability to address the regulatory issues raised by disruptive innovation will generate high levels of legal uncertainty and inconsistenc
• Permanent technological transition: Technological transition will be a permanent state in the age of disruptive innovation, so the uncertainty and inconsistency caused by rulemakers' ina
• Process design that undermines innovation: The existing rulemaking process prohibits ex parte communications and insufficiently integrates brainstorming and ideas across industries, and therefo
• SEC micromanagement slowing venture capital: The notice and comment procedures of the SEC are too slow, and the SEC's outdated micromanagement of markets is itself slowing down venture capital.
• regulatory-recognition-gap: The absence of regulatory recognition of blockchain technology is itself a source of harm: it creates significant uncertainty, hinders cross industry
• regulatory-recognition-gap: The absence of regulatory recognition of blockchain technology is itself a source of harm: it creates significant uncertainty for the blockchain commu
• innovation-chilling-uncertainty: Regulatory uncertainty in this transitional era actively frustrates blockchain innovation rather than supplying the secure framework in which blockcha
• regulatory-grey-area-uncertainty: The lack of maturity of blockchain technology has slowed its integration into the corporate world, and the absence of a legal framework leaves the who
• Regulatory void and legal uncertainty: The lack of a regulatory framework creates significant legal uncertainty in the ICO market, and because cryptocurrencies are censorship-resistant and
• success defined as catastrophe avoidance: Regulators too often define success negatively, as the avoidance of catastrophe, which makes regulatory experimentation unattractive to them.
• criticism avoidance drives precaution: Because regulators seek to avoid grounds for criticism, they inevitably adopt an overly cautious posture, which is what the precautionary principle am
• regulation access disconnect: Regulatory caution produces a systematic disconnect between the regulation of an innovation and the commercial and consumer ability to access it.
• caution as status quo entrenchment: 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 t
• Platform limits as AI bottleneck: Micro task platform systems carry significant limitations that hold back the evolution of AI itself, so platform design is a bottleneck on AI progress
• Proceduralization of legal solutions: The major cause of lawyers obstructing transactions is the tendency to standardize or proceduralize legal solutions and to use standard form templates
• regulatory uncertainty chilling effect: Regulatory uncertainty produces a chilling effect: because early adopters must apply traditional law to novel instruments and cannot reach a comfortab
• regulatory chill on charitable token offerings: Regulatory concerns and lack of market confidence were the cited reasons for postponing the token sale of GiftCoin, a charitable donation tracking pro
• regulatory chill: Regulatory uncertainty is holding back both the development of DAOs and the optimization potential DAOs offer for digital assets.
• regulatory uncertainty suppresses participation: Regulatory uncertainty is curtailing the growth of the digital asset industry because investor classes across the spectrum, from retail investors to t
• public realm pre emption of private coin innovation: Although the public realm of coins could not exist without prior private experimentation, it is possible that the public realm will impact or even pre
• Regulatory uncertainty drag: Regulatory uncertainty is holding back both the development of DAOs and the potential of DAOs to optimize digital assets.
• Securities law capital constraint: Under current securities laws, DAOs governed solely by smart contracts are restricted in pooling assets and generating profit, because those laws limi
• cartelization of knowledge: Peer review exacerbates publication bias and can produce a cartelization of knowledge, because non-conforming innovative ideas may not receive full re
• Constitutional Exclusivity Lock In: Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive
• Regulatory Retrofit Neutralizer: Government controlled regulation of the evolving digital asset space was perhaps the leading decentralization neutralizer of the early 2020s, as regul
• Missing Protected Experimentation Space: Because decentralized technology at its core negates external control, censorship and oversight, regulatory approaches premised on government control
• People Coin Innovation Lag: People coins and the innovations they created were largely subject to regulatory uncertainty and evolved much slower or not at all, so government and
• patent expansion without innovation evidence: Courts expanded software patentability without proof that it would increase innovation, and the result was that corporations filed and acquired thousa
• patent uncertainty chills contribution: Expanded patentability chills open source contribution because developers fear inadvertent infringement yet typically lack the knowledge and skills to
• unanimity chilling effect: If unanimous consensus is strongly incentivized in every validation pool, a DAO will degenerate quickly, because members holding minority opinions wil
• regulatory incompatibility: Regulatory approaches of the early 2020s largely undermined the evolution of decentralized technology, because decentralized solutions at their core n
• constrained developer experimentation: The lack of developer liberalization carries negative societal consequences: when developers are restrained from building what they see as cutting edg
• premature constraint chilling effect: Strict legacy regulation built on stable and presumptively optimal rules and enforced at the AI development stage can inadvertently stifle innovation
• Micro task platform bottleneck on AI: Because AI progress depends on labeled data from micro task work, the significant limitations of existing micro task platform systems act as a direct
• hierarchy-adaptation-lag: Traditional hierarchical organizational structures are too slow to adapt to rapid technological change and stifle innovation through rigid control mec
• expiration-uncertainty: The possibility that a law will expire without guaranteed renewal creates a climate of uncertainty that discourages the investment and long term plann
• overconstrained compliance: Data protection compliance carried out in a way that overly constrains researcher access converts a privacy gain into a net social loss, because the s
• innovation versus ethics regulatory tradeoff: Regulation of legal AI faces a two sided failure: strict regimes such as the EU AI Act may stifle innovation, while lenient approaches such as the Uni