Cecilia Rikap

Cecilia Rikap is Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). 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 and resulting geopolitical tensions. Her recent book 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. 

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