Regulating Innovation in the Digital Age: A Demand-Centred Toolbox for the Data-Driven Economy (Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law) - Hardcover

Nikita Divissenko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150997833X ISBN 13: 9781509978335

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025

Synopsis

This book examines the role, impact and limitations of regulation as a tool for shaping innovative markets.

It contends that the current supply-centred approach is suboptimal in the context of digital innovation and proposes a blueprint for a more demand-conscious approach to regulation. The focus on the demand-side is prompted by the evolving role of consumers within the innovation process in the digital and data-driven economy, the regulatory implications of which are underexplored in legal scholarship.

The book features in-depth case studies of the most recent regulatory initiatives in the EU, including Open Banking, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the AI Act. It dismantles innovative regulatory instruments, and critically examines their underlying assumptions from an innovation perspective. The new demand-based approach informs the design and use of supply-side market-centred tools, behaviourally-informed demand-side instruments, and technological regulation, by introducing a coherent set of demand-centred considerations.

The book offers a regulatory toolbox recalibrated for the digital age and serves as a practical guide for academics, policymakers, regulators, and legal practitioners seeking to understand and engage with the regulation of innovative markets.

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About the Author

Nikita Divissenko is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150997833X
• ISBN 13: 9781509978335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240