# Investment data

`kaal:entity:investment-data`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `investment-data`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2017 to 2017.

**2017**

- [2834531-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-032) [design/argued] -- Data on investment in new technology can be used as an index or proxy for the necessity of regulation, supplying the signal that fact based regulation cannot generate in time.
  > Of particular importance in this context, is data relating to investment in new technology and innovation.90 Such data can be used as an index or proxy of the necessity of regulation.
  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
- [2834531-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-034) [empirical/argued] -- 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.
  > 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.
  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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