Capitalism, Power and Innovation

Cecilia Rikap is a tenure researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and associate researcher at the Centre de Population et Développement (CEPED), IRD/Université de Paris and COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is also an undergraduate lecturer at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and postgraduate lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Argentina.

The book includes detailed empirical mappings of how intellectual monopolies develop and transform knowledge from universities and open-source collaborations into intangible assets. The result is a strategy that combines undermining the commons through privatization with harvesting from the same commons.

1 Introduction Section 1. Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism 2 The emergence of Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism 3 Knowledge privatization and power relations in the knowledge commons 4 The interplays of US, China and their intellectual monopolies 5 Research universities: between subordination and intellectual monopoly.Section 2. Global intellectual monopolies. Illustrative cases. 6 Technological cooperation and competition among big pharmaceuticals 7 Apple: from legal towards data-driven intellectual rentiership 8 Amazon's data-driven intellectual monopoly 9 State Grid Corp: an intellectual monopoly relying on China's innovation system 10 Rentiership, predation, and their implications for workers. Section 3. Effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism on the peripheries 11 Why we need new development policies under intellectual monopoly capitalism 12 Singapore's innovation hub. A source of rents for intellectual monopolies. 13 Pharmaceutical knowledge extractivism from a semi-peripheral university. 14 Tilting the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism