Cecilia Rikap is a Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- UCL. Until joining UCL, she was a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne.
Cecilia’s research is rooted in the international political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovation. She currently studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from digital and pharma industries, the distribution of intellectual (including data) rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of knowledge assetization on the knowledge commons and development. She has published two books on these topics. 1) “Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism uncovered” (Routledge), recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition. 2) “The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order” (Palgrave), co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall, focuses on the artificial intelligence race and clashes of power between the US and Chinese Big Tech, the US state and the Chinese states. Her recent work includes corporate planning of global production and innovation systems driven by intellectual monopolization and how these leading corporations, in particular tech giants, are developing state-like features, thus reshaping core and peripheral states.
Recent work includes:
Rikap, “Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime”
Rikap “Capitalism as usual?”
Rikap “The expansionary strategies of intellectual monopolies: Google and the digitalization of healthcare”
Rikap & Lundvall “The Digital Innovation Race”
Testoni, García Carrillo, Gagnon, Rikap & Blaustein. “Whose shoulders is health research standing on?”
Rikap. “Capitalism, Power and Innovation. Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered”
