Rebellion Research

Rebellion Research is the research and insights platform within Rebellion Ventures. We develop and share rigorous, evidence-based frameworks and insights on autonomous operations & systems, economics of autonomy, and market creation & disruption in the era of AI and beyond. This includes original frameworks developed through Jukka Alanen’s research, alongside active collaboration with leading researchers and practitioners to integrate research and practice.

Research Areas

Autonomous Operations & Systems

How systems that sense, decide, and act transform core operations across essential industries—especially where reliability, control, and trust under uncertainty are decisive.

Autonomy in Digital and Physical Worlds

From digital operations to embodied and cyber-physical environments: the capabilities, constraints, and design tradeoffs that enable and constrain autonomy.

Economics of Autonomy

Where and how autonomy creates economic value, what is required to realize it in practice, and how business models evolve as operations become autonomous—captured in the Rebellion Economics of Autonomy framework.

Market Creation & Disruption in the Era of AI and Beyond

How innovations transform markets through intertwined creation and disruption (Creation–Disruption Theory), gain customer adoption, and shift spending patterns.

How Innovators Create and Disrupt Markets

How founders progress from conception to market-creating and disruptive impact (the Innovator’s Journey framework), developing a transformational opportunity, building a beachhead, scaling adoption and use cases, and attaining market leadership.

Why it matters

AI is moving from tools that assist humans to systems that operate with increasing autonomy. The Autonomy Revolution unlocks step-function productivity gains and transforms competitive dynamics—creating new categories, disrupting existing markets, and changing the economics of operations.

Connect

If you’re building, operating, or researching autonomy, reach out via our Connect page.