Publications
Publications
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.
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.
Durand, C. and Rikap, C (2025). Pour sortir de la dépendance européenne aux Big Tech, il faut une politique numérique non alignée. Le Monde.
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. (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) 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.
"América del Sur: Soberanía perdida en las nubes de las ‘big tech’", Open Democracy, July 2025.
"Die Vereinigten Daten von Europa", Die Zeit, July 2025.
"How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy", Nature Magazine, 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, 2025.
Silicon Valley se instaló en Washington: la influencia de los tecnomillonarios en el nuevo gobierno de Trump, El Comercio, 2025.
Cecilia Rikap, investigadora: “Microsoft y Google son como la sal: están en todos los platos”, El Pais, 2024.
Cecilia Rikap, inteligencia artificial y creación artística: “Vamos hacia un único modelo”, Infobae, 2024.
"En Brasil se juega quién va a gobernar el mundo digital", Página 12, 2024.
Cecilia Rikap: The Nature and Dark Side of Intellectual Monopolies, Center for International Security, Hong Kong, 2024.