Regulatory authority
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How can we better measure interactions of regulations and how they adapt in response to innovation?
- What approaches do regulators currently use to support innovators? How effective are these approaches? What are the underlying barriers stopping regulators from doing more to enable innovation (Capability, Opportunity and/or Motivation)? What opportunities are there for government to work with regulators to support innovation? How can grant funding be targeted at those regulator initiatives which will have the most impact on innovation?
- How can governance and standards frameworks encourage greater inclusion and security across the ecosystem? What would a good framework for measuring inclusion in digital identity markets look like? How can we minimise security and privacy risks within digital identity solutions?
- How can trade agreements effectively incorporate the interests of regulatory agencies?
- How can we best evaluate the impact of non-tariff, regulatory measures to trade in goods, including technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures?
- How can barriers to foreign investment (including business procedures) be most effectively identified and addressed?
- To what extent does regulatory divergence affect bilateral trade flows?
- What impact are the governments ‘Pro-Innovation regulation’ policies having (including the Regulatory Horizons Council and Regulators Pioneer Fund) and how can we better evaluate such policies in the future? Can we create an evaluation system specifically designed to help businesses and regulators monitor and evaluate the impacts of different regulatory approaches to create a coherent consistent library from which lessons can be learnt?
- What are the infrastructure, airspace, regulatory and skills requirements for the UK space industry and what are the impacts of existing government interventions?
- How do surveyors and inspectors interact with MASS whether through Port State Control or regular survey?
- To what extent will mobile market consolidation impact: (i) mobile coverage, (ii) consumer choice, (iii) consumer behaviour? How might the government or regulatory body need to prepare or intervene?
- How can we scan the regulatory horizon to identify opportunities to improve the regulatory environment? What role can regulators play in helping government identify areas of regulation in need of reform (and what information could they provide)? As new technologies develop, how can we more effectively anticipate and ‘roadmap’ the need for regulation and/or standardisation? How can we estimate what/when risks will occur (based on TRL) and when regulation is needed?
- How can we foster a Pro-Innovation culture among regulators and policymakers, and encourage / enable them to fully factor the needs of innovators / innovation in their work at the earliest stages? What would enable different parts of the institutional landscape to work together collaboratively and across traditional organisational boundaries? How can the use of performance reporting and metrics by regulators be used to drive their support for innovators?
- In what ways do governance, regulation and regulatory frameworks support or hinder public service broadcasters in providing a public service?
- How can ‘systems science’ be used by government and regulators to improve their understanding, making their policies better targeted and more effective? How can ‘behavioural science’ be used to influence the behaviour of key stakeholders (regulators, businesses and/or policymakers) to achieve better policy outcomes?
- How can we best measure and track media freedom in the UK context building upon existing international work including the RSF’s Media Freedom Index? What does a more detailed development and analysis reveal?
- How can we quantify the impact of good regulatory practice?
- To what extent does the use of international standards particularly facilitate trade with developing, low and middle-income countries?
- What are the infrastructure, airspace, regulatory and skills requirements for the emerging aviation technologies and what are the impacts of existing government interventions?