# kaal:claim:2834531-034

**Claim.** Data on the timing of investment is a reliable indicator of a technology's commercial maturity, because high levels of investor activity signal that the technology is about to be ready for commercial exploitation, which tells regulators when to intervene.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- when early stage investments peak and later stage investments take off

**Source quote.**

> Data on the timing of investment appears to provide a reliable indicator of the commercial maturity of a technology, in the sense that high levels of investor activity indicate that a particular technology is about to be ready for commercial exploitation.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), A. Data Driven Regulatory Intervention, page 27

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** investment-data, regulatory-timing, commercial-maturity, data-driven-regulation

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