Introduction: new frontiers of techno-economic rentiership

Kean Birch, Callum Ward and Eliot Tretter

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Abstract: In this guest introduction, we explore emerging critiques at the frontiers of techno-economic rentiership. Rentiership is a process entailing political-economic and technological (i.e. techno-economic) relations, formations, practices, and justifications underpinning the ownership and/or control of assets, which enable the capture of future revenue streams (i.e. what we call rents). Conceptually, in this context, rentiership permits us to analyse the increasingly diverse techno-economic dimensions of those future revenue streams, rather than being a normative term for identifying ‘good’ or ‘bad’ forms of revenue (i.e. profit vs. rent).

Keywords: rentiership; economic rents; technoscientific capitalism; intellectual property; big tech; technoscience; Rentiership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2022-07-01
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Published in Competition and Change, 1, July, 2022, 26(3-4), pp. 407-414. ISSN: 1024-5294

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