Managing the opportunities and risks associated with disruptive technologies: space law in New Zealand

Authors

  • Kirsty Hutchison
  • Katherine MacNeill
  • Peter Mumford
  • Val Sim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v13i4.4617

Keywords:

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), space activities, entrepreneurship and innovation, Rocket Lab, international space treaties, Technology Safeguards Agreement, Liability Convention, risk-based and proportionate decision making

Abstract

A key challenge for regulators is how to enable entrepreneurship and innovation while managing the risks associated with rapidly evolving technologies and associated market change. A number of technologies could be used to illustrate this problem, such as the internet, gene editing and driverless vehicles. However, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) recently had to face  this specific issue in relation to space activities.

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Policy Quarterly volume 13 issue 4 2017

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2017-11-01

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2017): Policy Quarterly

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