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Dr Cecilia Rikap

Lectureship in International Political Economy Science and Technology

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of International Politics

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Dr Cecilia Rikap joined City, University of London in September 2021. She is a permanent Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City and programme director of the BSc in IPE. She is also a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is an advisor for Argentina's Ministries of Health and Productive Development.

Cecilia’s research focuses on the political economy of science and technology. She studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from tech 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. 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.


Teaching at City

IP1021 - Principles of Economics 1: Prices and Markets.
IP2039 - Advanced Principles of Economics.
IP3041 - The Multinational Corporation.

Employment

  • Lecturer in International Political Economy, City, University of London, Sep 2021 – present

Publications

Publications by category

Books (2)

  • Rikap, C. and Lundvall, B.-.Å. (2021). The Digital Innovation Race Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-89442-9.
  • Rikap, C. Capitalism, Power and Innovation. Routledge.

Journal articles (24)

  • Rikap, C. (2022). The expansionary strategies of intellectual monopolies: Google and the digitalization of healthcare. Economy and Society pp. 1–27. doi:10.1080/03085147.2022.2131271.

    [publisher’s website]

  • García 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, 8(11). doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11481.
  • Rikap, C. and Lundvall, B.-.Å. (2022). Big tech, knowledge predation and the implications for development. Innovation and Development, 12(3), pp. 389–416. doi:10.1080/2157930x.2020.1855825.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2022). Amazon: A story of accumulation through intellectual rentiership and predation. Competition & Change, 26(3-4), pp. 436–466. doi:10.1177/1024529420932418.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Franco, S.F., Graña, J.M., Flacher, D. and Rikap, C. (2022). Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience? Competition & Change pp. 102452942210970–102452942210970. doi:10.1177/10245294221097066.

    [publisher’s website]

  • 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), pp. 104472–104472. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104472.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2022). From global value chains to corporate production and innovation systems: exploring the rise of intellectual monopoly capitalism. Area Development and Policy, 7(2), pp. 147–161. doi:10.1080/23792949.2021.2025118.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Lundvall, B.-.Å. 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), pp. 104395–104395. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104395.

    [publisher’s website]

  • 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, 2(3), pp. 431–457. doi:10.1007/s43253-021-00045-4.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Testoni, F.E., Carrillo, M.G., Gagnon, M.-.A., Rikap, C. and Blaustein, M. (2021). Correction: Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda. PLOS ONE, 16(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260330.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Testoni, F.E., García Carrillo, M., Gagnon, M.-.A., Rikap, C. and Blaustein, M. (2021). Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda. PLOS ONE, 16(4). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249661.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. and Harari-Kermadec, H. (2021). Motivations for collaborating with industry: has public policy influenced new academics in Argentina? Studies in Higher Education, 46(4), pp. 901–912. doi:10.1080/03075079.2019.1659764.

    [publisher’s website]

  • 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, 55, pp. 59–73. doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2020.06.004.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. and Harari-Kermadec, H. (2020). The direct subordination of universities to the accumulation of capital. Capital & Class, 44(3), pp. 371–400. doi:10.1177/0309816819852761.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. and Naidorf, J. (2020). Ciencia privatizada en América Latina. Con-Ciencia Social, (3), pp. 57–57. doi:10.7203/con-cienciasocial.3.16790.

    [publisher’s website]

  • 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), pp. 987–1021. doi:10.1080/09692290.2019.1620309.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2018). Innovation as economic power in Global Value Chains. Revue d'économie industrielle, (163), pp. 35–75. doi:10.4000/rei.7226.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2017). The differentiated market-university: Is commodification equally affecting all universities? Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 15(3), pp. 266–304.
  • Rikap, C. (2017). La autonomía universitaria como autogobierno: ¿crisis de representatividad en la Universidad de Buenos Aires? = University’s Autonomy as Self-Government: a Crisis of Representativeness in the Universidad de Buenos Aires? CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades, 20(2), pp. 303–303. doi:10.20318/cian.2017.3944.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2017). Percepciones sobre la autonomía universitaria de los docentes-investigadores de la Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior, 8(23), pp. 138–138. doi:10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2017.23.3015.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Rikap, C. (2012). La vinculación de la universidad con el sector productivo Transferencia tecnológica. Ecos de Economía, 16(34), pp. 127–149. doi:10.17230/ecos.2012.34.6.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Bekerman, M. and Rikap, C. (2012). Structural heterogeneity and poor microenterprises in Argentina. Problemas del Desarrollo, 43(169), pp. 121–144.
  • Bekerman, M. and Rikap, C. (2010). Regional integration and export diversification in MERCOSUR: The case of Argentina and Brazil. CEPAL Review, 2010(100), pp. 165–187. doi:10.18356/de98ff8f-en.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Bekerman, M. and Rikap, C. (2010). Regional integration and diversification of exports in Mercosur: the case of Argentina and Brazil. CEPAL REVIEW, (100), pp. 169–191.

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