Discontinuous Technological Change and Relaxations of Regulatory Restrictions to Achieve Societal Objectives for the Environment, with Focus on IP Protections

Clemons, Eric; Schreieck, Maximilian

Discontinuous Technological Change and Relaxations of Regulatory Restrictions to Achieve Societal Objectives for the Environment, with Focus on IP Protections

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Date

2023-01-03

Authors

Clemons, Eric

Schreieck, Maximilian

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6419

Abstract

We address cases where improvements in information technology for measurement and monitoring should result in regulatory relaxation, in contrast with much recent research, which focuses on situations where these improvements should result in increased regulatory restrictions on the actions permitted by large platform operators. We focus specifically on the problem of reducing environmental degradation, and we explore how regulatory restrictions associated with intellectual property (IP) rights should be relaxed in the presence of demonstrable reductions in environmental impact that result from improvements made by parties other than the owners of the IP. We explore how Environmental Impact Merit should be used to compel the owner of the IP to adopt improvements and to compel compensation to the improver. Future research will develop additional examples where regulatory relaxation is appropriate.

Keywords

Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES), environmental impact merit, intellectual property rights protection, regulatory policy, regulatory relaxation

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https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103410

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10

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Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES)

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