Cecilia Rikap is a lecturer in international political economy (IPE) at the City University of London, a researcher at CONICET, Argentina’s research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is author of Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge) and co-author of The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order (Palgrave).
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