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Exploring the pathways: Regulatory experiments for Sustainable Development - An interdisciplinary approach

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  • Bauknecht, Dierk
  • Bischoff, Thore
  • Bizer, Kilian
  • Heyen, Dirk Arne
  • Führ, Martin
  • Gailhofer, Peter
  • Proeger, Till
  • von der Leyen, Kaja

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations provide normative orientation for many national and regional governments as well as actors from industry and other parts of the civil society. There is growing consensus that the corresponding transformation processes needed - e.g. in the field of production and consumption patterns (SDG 12) - have to be fostered by a corresponding institutional framework. Properly designed regulatory experiments that generate a learning system for all actors involved may be an important building block. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, we develop an overview of the various terminologies for regulatory experimentation currently discussed in the social sciences, derive common criteria for regulatory experimentation in reflexive governance structures and conclude in presenting a conceptual framework for analysing empirical studies of regulatory experiments.

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  • Bauknecht, Dierk & Bischoff, Thore & Bizer, Kilian & Heyen, Dirk Arne & Führ, Martin & Gailhofer, Peter & Proeger, Till & von der Leyen, Kaja, 2019. "Exploring the pathways: Regulatory experiments for Sustainable Development - An interdisciplinary approach," ifh Working Papers 22/2019, Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen (ifh).
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    Keywords

    Regulation; Regulatory Experimenting; Sustainable Development; Reflexive Governance; Regulatory Learning;
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    JEL classification:

    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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