Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Business and Economics) published a new article in the European Economic Review, titled “Forgone innovation: regulation as pruning of the adjacent possible.” The paper examines how regulation can shape innovation not only through immediate costs and benefits, but by limiting which combinations of technologies and organizational models are possible to explore. Drawing on the Theory of the Adjacent Possible, the research shows how even small regulatory constraints can generate compounding long-run effects by narrowing the range of experimentation available to innovators. The article develops this framework through a case study of the European Union’s USB-C mandate and illustrative examples from U.S. health care. The European Economic Review is one of the leading general-interest journals in economics.
