Yes we are starting to see regulators look at ICOs as something that could benefit the economy. However, they talk about ICOs like all ICOs are the same and that 99% of them are scams and just used for speculative purposes to raise funds illegally. That is why they want to put regulatory framework around them, so they can ultimately benefit from the taxes of the funds.
Actually nobody knows nobody knows where did this figure came from (99% of them are scams). it is a bit far from being a real statistics. It is easyer to find how many coins were failed after so many forks. The effectiveness of the ICO will be possible to assess after a couple of years.
A now it is possible to gather not a bad set of ICO projects which would bring you a profit