Research and analysis

Regulator approaches to facilitate, support and enable innovation

The effectiveness of various regulatory approaches in terms of encouraging innovation.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 28 January 2020

Documents

Regulator approaches to facilitate, support and enable innovation

Ref: BEIS Research Paper series number 2020/003

PDF, 617 KB, 67 pages

Details

This research looks at the effectiveness of various regulatory approaches in terms of encouraging innovation. It is based on a literature review and 35 interviews with regulators, government actors, and companies.

The report reviews examples across the following 5 broad types of innovation-friendly approaches:

• providing regulatory advice to innovators to help them navigate the regulatory system
• supporting experimentation and testing of innovations using ‘sandboxes’ and ‘testbeds’
• streamlining regulatory approvals for innovators
• setting regulatory challenges to boost innovation
• collaborating internationally on innovation to reduce the burden on innovators trying to sell their product or service in different jurisdictions

Published 28 January 2020