
Regulation & Technological Innovation: Opportunities, Challenges and Emerging Approaches
2nd Edition
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
Learn how to manage digital regulation with innovative tools in our course for Latin American and Caribbean professionals and improve your public policy skills.
This course is the result of a collaboration between the Inter-American Development Bank and the European University Institute (EUI).
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- Explain regulation and regulatory governance and provide concrete examples.
- Summarize the public policy cycle and what occurs during each step.
- Compare regulatory policy instruments and locate them along the policy cycle.
- Identify and describe the main methods used to evaluate public policy.
- Describe and explain different types of innovation (e.g., technological, organizational, social).
- Elaborate on intersections between regulation and digital transformation, including key issues and risks associated with emerging technologies.
- Discuss the impact of regulation on innovation, including main regulatory approaches to risk and precaution.
- Compare traditional regulation to adaptive and anticipatory regulation.
- Describe alternatives to traditional regulation, including self-regulation and coregulation, and performance- or outcome-based regulation.
- Define directionality and explain how regulation can promote socially-relevant innovation.
- Explain the key features of emerging digital technologies and the challenges they present to policymakers.
- Discuss how horizon scanning can be used to address policy needs.
- Give examples of experimental regulation and the shared characteristics of regulatory sandboxes.
- Summarize how technical protocols and standards can be used to address gaps in regulating online services.
- Explain current approaches to algorithmic regulation.
- Analyze regulatory interventions from international case studies using understanding, knowledge, and tools from the previous units.
- Discuss regulatory alternatives and their direct and indirect impacts, with reference to case studies.
- Develop evidence-based arguments in support of a specific policy proposal with colleagues.
- Discuss with colleagues in public forum in support of a specific policy proposal and confront and criticize counterarguments presented by others.
- Identify the technological and policy trends that will shape the future approach to regulation and related methods and tools.
- Discuss the role of humans and machines in the future of regulation.
- Collectively formulate a set of key principles that should guide the regulation of emerging technologies in the future.