Innovation and Law: when Timing is Everything | Sofia Ranchordás | TEDxTilburgUniversity

According to Sofia, lawyers should take timing more into account when creating laws and regulations for innovations. Therefore she opposes a concept how this should be done in order to ensure that law does not obstruct innovation.

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Sofia Ranchordás is an assistant professor at Tilburg Law School and is currently taking part in the Information Society Project of Yale Law School. Innovation seems to be in the air these days. Governments expect innovators to inhale subsidies and tax credits and exhale innovation. After many years believing that the state should not intervene in the innovation process, government and law seem to be entering the innovation picture again. However, there is an ugly truth behind this new tendency: state intervention is still not correctly targeted because we still don’t know what the relationship between law and disruptive innovation should be. Law is still based on traditions, tangible and predictable realities, whereas innovators challenge us to think out of the box. If we don’t know, we can experiment and learn.

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