The Precautionary Principle and the Innovation Principle: Incompatible Guides?
In policy debates concerning the governance and regulation of transformative technologies, both the Precautionary Principle (PP) and the Innovation Principle (IP) are advocated by their respective interest groups. Do these principles offer wholly incompatible and contradictory guidance? Does one necessarily negate the other? I argue here that provided attention is restricted to weak-form PP and IP