Sentence examples for harmful innovation from inspiring English sources

The Wahhābīyah, a Muslim sect founded in the 18th century, for example, considered the subḥah a harmful innovation (bidʿah) whose use was consequently forbidden to true believers.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, reformist movements clamored for the reinstatement of ijtihād as a means of freeing Islam from harmful innovations (bidʿahs) accrued through the centuries and as a reform tool capable of adapting Islam to the requirements of life in a modern world.

The recording industry lobbied heavily for the new copyright directive, which had been blocked in the past by a coalition of smaller European countries that see the extension as harmful to innovation.

"When you get to a position where you have a 40percentt market share, you can dictate the terms of new services, and that can be quite harmful to innovation," said Martin Mills, founder of Beggars Group, which co-owns some of the biggest independent labels in the world, including XL and Matador Records.

This would determine which derivatives are good and which are harmful, and if an innovation is deemed harmful it can't be sold.

But like any sanctioned monopoly, a patent is a necessary evil; an economically harmful constraint on further innovation.

Precaution operates exactly where adequate guarantees against undesirable harmful consequences of scientific innovation cannot be provided by applying the general rules and standards of risk governance, so that the criteria for a responsible management of innovation have to be set case by case.

Not all financial innovation is harmful, but it is undeniable that in recent years it was a runaway train that nearly derailed the global financial system.

As bad as things seem now, it is too early to write off the innovation as more harmful than good.

It also introduces a form of moral hazard, because banks and their creditors may assume that the government would be duty-bound to bail them out if a closely monitored institution were to fail.On the other hand over-strict regulation can also be harmful if it stifles financial innovation and squeezes all appetite for risk out of the banking system.

Contrast that with the stick-up artist idea — which is very popular now, especially in Silicon Valley — that patent trolls are inherently harmful, that they are impeding innovation by either suing or extracting large license fees and making it very difficult for companies to innovate.