It is too soon to tell what this upheaval will yield, but a long overdue shake-up is finally under way.Stand aside and deliverRegulation, innovation, infrastructure, education: each of these is crucial to competitiveness.
In a law review article calling for a financial consumer protection agency, she and a colleague explained the need as follows: "Thanks to effective regulation, innovation in the market for physical products has led to greater safety and more consumer-friendly features.
This paper explores the relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and competitiveness using environmental patent data.
It explores the role of regulation for innovation and innovation policy by emphasizing the importance of non-technological regulatory effects for innovation and their potential as an input for innovation policy.
It's a common gripe: Outdated regulations obstruct innovation; government regulators move too slowly or, worse, try to block technological progress.
And we have taxes and regulations stifling innovation and businesses.
Q. Have the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other new regulations discouraged innovation? A. They have certainly shifted attention toward corporate governance, controls, risk management and so on.
Even with the best of intentions, organizations sometimes snag their employees in impossible tangles of rules and regulations, slowing innovation and productivity.
The system has gaps, like the absence of regulation for "innovations" such as credit default swaps, the insurance-like contracts now valued at $62 trillion whose destructive potential prompted the bailouts of Bear Stearns and the American International Group.
The $100 million (as opposed to Mr. Bush's $1.2 billion) is not a large amount to invest to keep this promise alive — especially since no one is using the program as an excuse for avoiding here-and-now regulations and innovation.
