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NEW ARTICLE: HOW TECH GIANTS’ BUYOUTS LIMIT MARKET ENTRY OF NEW COMPANIES
A new article titled “Killers on the road of emerging start-ups—implications for market entry and venture capital financing” by Heli Koski, Otto Kässi, Fabian Braesemann has been published by Industrial and Corporate Change. Abstract The competitive effects of acquisitions made by large US-based technology companies have come under increased regulatory scrutiny over recent years because
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THESIS PRIZE AND BLOG POST: HOW COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECT CONCENTRATION OF POWER
For his master’s thesis, DIESL team member Kaarlo Liukkonen was awarded a Rajapinta’s 2025 thesis grant. The work, titled “Competing clouds: U.S.-China tech rivalry and the geoeconomic turn”, analyses job advertisement data to measure cloud demand in 32 countries and to what extent there has been a “geoeconomic turn” in cloud computing. The study finds
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NVIDIA GPU supply chain
An interactive NVIDIA GPU map that visualizes its complex global supply chain used for teaching of the course “International Relations and Technology” at Aalto University.
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Drone strikes on Gulf data centres: How geopolitics will shape the fallout
Vili Lehdonvirta Recent reporting indicates that Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing disruption to millions of people and businesses in the Gulf region. Iranian state media claims that the data centres were deliberately targeted. This appears to be the first time a country’s armed
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Call for Papers – EISA PEC 2026
Infrastructures of Power: Materialities of Tech Autonomy in a World of Weaponised Interdependence This panel is for the European International Studies Association’s Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA-PEC 2026) The Conference will be held on 1-4 September 2026, in Lisbon, Portugal. More Information on EISA-PEC can be found at: https://eisa-net.org/abstract-submission-guidelines-pec-2026/ Panel Chair: Kunhan Li (Aalto
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Digital Economic Security Seminar – Winter 2026
Organisers/Hosts: Vili Lehdonvirta, Philipp Riederle Sessions: Tuesdays, 1–2pm (UK time), during Oxford term time, via Zoom Participation: Open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please apply here if you would like to join the seminar sessions. Winter/Hilary Term 2026 *Different Eastern time due to the US switching to daylight saving time
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford