“Reach for the sky”: modeling the impact of policy stringency on industrial dynamics in the case of the REACH regulation
开发了一个基于主体的模型，探究REACH法规如何促进更安全的替代品进入市场，并以食品包装中的双酚A为例，分析法规严格度感知差异对创新和产业动态的长期影响。
An agent-based model is developed as an explorative tool to investigate how the REACH regulation can help bring safer substitutes to the market. An illustration is given with the case of bisphenol-A used in food packaging. The modeling exercise enables an analysis of long-term effects of REACH on innovation and industrial dynamics caused by misfits likely to emerge between objective and perceived stringency of regulation as well as misfits related to divergent perceptions between suppliers and clients.