FinReg Blog: “What Kind of Asset is Personal Data?”

We just published a short article on The FinReg Blog run out of the School of Law at Duke University, USA, about our recent journal article: “Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech“. Here’s the opening paragraph … “Digital personal data is often described as the resource of the …

Is this the end of Big Tech?

“… you have data that is not to be replicated, that has a very long duration, that effectively can serve as an asset that can foreclose competitors from entering your market.” – Margrethe Vestager, EU Commissioner Reposted from my Medium.com account: https://keanbirch.medium.com/is-this-the-end-of-big-tech-1af5b1671597 The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Facebook for “illegal monopolization”, alleging …

From Entrepreneurship to Rentiership in Technoscientific Capitalism

Originally posted on on the DBP Blog, Copenhagen Business School, on 16th August 2017 by Joachim Lund. This post has since been deleted. The DBP Blog ran a short series of contributions from our visiting scholars. Kean Birch wrote a blog called ‘Entrepreneurship and Rentiership in Technoscientific Capitalism’ while he was a Visiting Scholar at …