Publications

Rikap, C. (2026). The Rulers. Corporate Porwer in the Age of AI and the Cloud. Verso Books. ISBN: 9781804297346.

Rikap, C and Lundval, B.A.K. (2021). The Digital Innovation Race. Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order. ISBN: 978-3-030-89443-6 

Rikap, C. (2021) Capitalism, Power and Innovation. United Kingdom: Routledge. ISBN Hardback: 978-0-367-35763-4 eBook: 978-0-429-34148-9.

• Rikap, C. & Weko, S. (2025) "A green transition orchestrated from Big Tech clouds?" Globalizations.

• Benssusan, H.; Durand, C. & Rikap, C. (2025) "Hundred years of corporate planning. From industrial capitalism to intellectual monopoly capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922–2021)". Socio-Economic Review.

• Cirillo, V; Durand, C.; Guarascio, D.; Rabinovich, J. & Rikap, C. (2025). "Power, knowledge and technology in a finite world". Review of Political Economy.

• Rikap, C. (2024) "Varieties of corporate innovation systems and their interplay with global and national systems: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft’s strategies to produce and appropriate artificial intelligence." Review of International Political Economy.

• Rikap, C. (2024) "The US National Security State and Big Tech: frenemy relations and innovation planning in turbulent times". Review of Keynesian Economics.

• Fernández Franco, S., Graña, J.M.and Rikap, C*. (2024) "Dependency in the digital age? The experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America". Development and Change. *corresponding author

• Rikap, C. (2023) “Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime". Industrial and Corporate change.

• Rikap, C. (2023) "Capitalism as usual?”. The New Left Review, Num. 139 pp.145-160.

• Rikap, C. (2022) “The expansionary strategies of intellectual monopolies: Google and the digitalization of healthcare”. Economy and Society, pp.1-28.

• Carrillo, M., Testoni, F., Gagnon M.A., Rikap, C.* and Blaustein, M.* (2022) "Academic dependency: the influence of the prevailing international biomedical research agenda on Argentina’s CONICET." HELIYON, pp. 1-9. * These two authors contributed equally. 

• Rikap, C. (2022) “Becoming an intellectual monopoly by relying on the national innovation system: the State Grid Corporation of China's experience”. Research Policy, 51(4), p. 1-16.

• Fernández Franco, S., Graña, J.M., Flacher, D. and Rikap, C. (2022) Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience? Competition and Change, p. 1-30.

• Rikap, C. (2022) From global value chains to corporate production and innovation systems: exploring the rise of intellectual monopoly capitalism. Area Development and Policy, p.1-15.

• Lundval, B.A.K. and Rikap, C. (2022). China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems. Research Policy, 51 (1).

• Testoni, F., Carrillo, M., Gagnon, M-A, Rikap, C.* and Blaustein, M.* (2021) "Whose shoulders is health research standing on? A meta-analysis of the influence of large pharmaceutical companies and leading universities on global biomedical research agendas". Plos One. * These two authors are final and co-corresponding authors, they contributed equally.

• Auvray, T., Durand, C., Rabinovich, J. and Rikap, C. (2021) "Corporate financialization’s conservation and transformation: from Mark I to Mark II". Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.

• Rikap, C. and Lundvall B.A.K. (2020) “Big Tech, knowledge predation and the implications for development”. Innovation and Development.

• Rikap, C. (2020) "Amazon: A story of accumulation through intellectual rentiership and predation". Competition and Change. 

• Rikap, C. and Flacher, D. (2020) "Who collects intellectual rents from knowledge and innovation hubs? Questioning the sustainability of the Singapore model". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

• Rikap, C., Garelli, F., García Carrillo, M., Fernández Larrosa, P.N. and Blaustein, M. (2020) "Lucro empresarial, extractivismo y pandemia" Antagónica. Revista de investigación y crítica social 2, 67-100. 

• Rikap, C. and Naidorf, J. (2020) Ciencia privatizada en América Latina. Con-ciencia social: Segunda Época. 3, 57-76.

• Rikap, C. and Harari-Kermadec, H. (2019) Motivations for collaborating with industry: has public policy influenced new academics in Argentina? Studies in Higher Education.

• Rikap, C. (2019). Asymmetric Power of the Core: Technological Cooperation and Technological Competition in the Transnational Innovation Networks of Big Pharma. Review of International Political Economy. 26 (5), 987-1021.

• Rikap, C., Harari-Kermadec, H. (2019). The Direct Subordination of Universities to the Accumulation of Capital. Capital and Class. 44 (3), 371-400.

• Rikap, C. (2018). Innovation as economic power in Global Value Chains. Revue d’Économie Industrielle, 163, 35-75.

• Rikap, C. (2018). El capitalismo como sistema de poder: del dinero a la diferenciación del capital. Revista de Filosofía de la Economía, 7(2), 97-111.

• Gerbaudo, P & Rikap, C. (2025) "Why Digital Sovereignty Matters?", Tribune Magazine.

• Rikap, C. (2025) A Progressive roadmap for expanding European Digital Soveregitny. Report for FEPS & FES for the S&D European Parliamentarians.

• Rikap, C. (2025). Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why US Cloud Giants Benefit from DeepSeek and Other Chinese Companies’ AI Strategies. Report for Common Wealth.

• Rikap, C & Blankertz, A. (2025) Demokratisch kontrollierte Alternativen gegen technologische Abhängigkeit. Tagesspiegel Background.

• Durand, C & Rikap, C (2025) Pour sortir de la dépendance européenne aux Big Tech, il faut une politique numérique non alignée. Le Monde.

• Riakp, C. (2025) "América del Sur: Soberanía perdida en las nubes de las ‘big tech’", Open Democracy.

• Rikap, C.; Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024) Reclaiming digital sovereignty: A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet. UCL's IIPP White Paper.

• Rikap, C (2025). How Big Tech turns knowledge into power. Critical Takes on Corporate Power.

• Rikap, C. (2024) II. Europe Needs an EC-Led AI Plan for the People and the Planet. In: Redirecting Europe’s AI Industrial Policy: From Competitiveness to Public Interest. AI Now Institute.

• Rikap, C. (2024) Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI. Report for Common Wealth.

• Rikap, C. & Durand, C. (2024) What Brazil’s Showdown With Elon Musk Was Really About. Jacobin

• Rikap, C. (2024) Breaking-up Google. Phenomenal World.

• Rikap, C. (2024) Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues. Institute For New Economic Thinking.

• Rikap, C (2024). A fit-for-purpose platform research agenda for a broken world. Platforms & Society.

• Rikap, C. (2024) Qu’est-ce que la monopolisation intellectuelle et pourquoi devrions-nous nous en préoccuper ? Regards Croisés sur l'Economie. 

• Rikap, C. (2024) Milei's ‘twin extractivism’ reforms threaten Argentina and the planet. Open Democracy.

• Rikap, C. (2023) Inteligencia artificial: reemplazo, hibridación… ¿progreso? Revista Nueva Sociedad.

• Rikap, C. and Durand, C. (2022) State of Big Tech: Capitalism in the age of intellectual Monopoly. Report for the NGO IT for Change.

• Rikap, C. (2022) Big Tech: Not Only Market But Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers. Institute For New Economic Thinking. 

• Rikap, C. & Lundvall, B.A.K (2022) Governments and Big Tech in playoff for world power. 360Info

• "Die EU hat das Ausmaß der Kontrolle durch US-Firmen noch nicht erkannt", Taggespiegel, Germany, November 2025.

• "ENTREVISTA: Como as big techs usam você para lucrar com discurso de sustentabilidade", The Intercept Brasil, Brazil, October 2025.

• "KI-Modelle sind trojanische Pferde", TAGEBUCH, Austria, October 2025.

• "Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump", The Guardian, Sep 2025.

• "Three Questions with Cecilia Rikap", The Great AI downgrade, Ole Reissmann Newsletter, Sep 2025

• Cecilia Rikap: »Wir alle produzieren KI, aber nur einige Wenige profitieren«, Surplus Magazine, Germany, Aug 2025.

• The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype, The Guardian, Aug 2025.

• "Die Vereinigten Daten von Europa", Die Zeit, Germany, July 2025.

• "La militarización de Silicon Valley: las ‘big tech’ y el lucrativo negocio de la guerra" El Comercio, Peru, Aug 2025.

• "Uruguay y América Latina deben apostar por la soberanía digital que prescinda de Amazon, Microsoft y Google, afirma experta" La Diaria, Uruguay, May 2025.

• "Guerre commerciale : l’Europe peut-elle riposter en taxant les géants du numérique ?" Alternative Economique, France, Apr 2025.

• "How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy", Nature Magazine, Mar 2025

• "The EU urgently needs technological autonomy from the US, MEPs say", Science Business, 2025

• The state as common good’s last stand: Recipes to stop oligarchy, El País, Spain, Feb 2025.

• Silicon Valley se instaló en Washington: la influencia de los tecnomillonarios en el nuevo gobierno de Trump, El Comercio, Perú, Jan 2025.

• Cecilia Rikap, investigadora: “Microsoft y Google son como la sal: están en todos los platos”, El Pais, Spain, 2024.

• Cecilia Rikap, inteligencia artificial y creación artística: “Vamos hacia un único modelo”, Infobae, Argentina, 2024.

• "En Brasil se juega quién va a gobernar el mundo digital", Página 12, Argentina, 2024.

• Cecilia Rikap: The Nature and Dark Side of Intellectual Monopolies, Center for International Security, Hong Kong, 2024.

• Hacia un mundo de superpersonas. O supertontos, Diario Perfil, Argentina, Jan 2024.