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title: 'Does regulation impede innovation in mining? Part 2: business model innovation'
url: 'https://www.inspire-resources.ca/blog/does-regulation-impede-innovation-in-mining-part-2'
markdown: 'https://www.inspire-resources.ca/blog/does-regulation-impede-innovation-in-mining-part-2.md'
date: '2025-02-23'
description: 'By Andy Reynolds In the previous article, I offered some indirect causal linkages between investor protection regulations and the well-known systemic problem of incorporating new technologies into mines and their process plants. Now I turn my attention to a much bigger issue: business model innovat…'
taxonomy:
  archives_month:
    - feb_2025
  archives_year:
    - '2025'
---

# Does regulation impede innovation in mining? Part 2: business model innovation

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