Questions from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
Artificial Intelligence - How can we meaningfully assess the risks posed by AI and prepare for them?
Which data sources or key indicators should we be watching that may indicate major changes in the risk assessment, or new risks hitherto unidentified arising?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
What are the big strategic questions in relation to ‘Pro-Innovation Regulation’ that the government should be focused on? Do regulatory mandates and remits need to change and if so how, as markets and the economy continue to shift? Is sector-focused regulation struggling to cope with changing markets, and how should it interact with horizontal regulation? Should innovation be made an explicit part of regulators’ remit, without diluting their responsibility for consumer safety? How far should regulation be used to create new markets or shape existing ones?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
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?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
Are international regulatory frameworks and technical standards currently helping or hindering UK innovators in achieving scale? How do key stakeholders rate our regulatory system compared to international competitors? How active / influential has the UK been in shaping international efforts to establish regulations and standards? Have UK industry and government built new capabilities / coalitions, effective in shaping global technical standards?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
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?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
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?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
How can networks and communities of practice be used to support knowledge sharing and foster collaboration amongst regulators? How can strategic coordination and partnership help unlock the value of standards for innovation? How can regulators work with Freeports to overcome the regulatory challenges of developing, testing and applying new ideas and technologies?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
How can we better understand the risks and rewards of various regulatory approaches, such as sandboxes, and design a system that balances the two? What types of data sharing between regulators and businesses would enable greater innovative activity in the UK?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
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?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Technologies and Innovative Regulation - Pro-Innovation Regulation
What is the proper role for public engagement and communication as part of a wider regulatory process? What is regulators’ accountability to the public with respect to innovation? What are the practical ways of doing public engagement in agile way?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024