Cecilia Rikap

About

Cecilia Rikap holds a PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- UCL. Until joining UCL, she was a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne.

She studies the rising concentration of intangible assets, focusing on the distribution of data and innovation rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism on the knowledge commons and development.

Employment

• City University of London Lecturer in IPE (focus on S&T)
  2021 - Present
• Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Permanent researcher
  2020 - Present
• Ministerio de Desarrollo Productivo, Argentina Consultant in digital economy topics
  2020 - 2020
• Institute for New Economic Thinking Academic consultant in multiple projects (Latin America Convening, Early Career Research challenges and YSI Question Fair)
  2018 - 2020
• Université Paris Descartes Postdoctoral fellow
  2018 - 2019
• Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Postdoctoral fellow
  2016 - 2018
• Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas PhD scholar
  2011 - 2016
• Universidad de Buenos Aires Research Assistant
  2007 - 2011
• University College London

Education

• Universidad de Buenos Aires Postgraduate Degree in Teaching at the University Level
  2009 - 2010
• Universidad de Buenos Aires Economics undergraduate degree (5 and a half years programme)
  2002 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (71)

• A green transition orchestrated from Big Tech clouds?
  Globalizations 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2025.2548716
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• The 'Shared' and 'Open' Innovation Paradigm: Re-Conceptualising the Competition Law and IP Interface in (Digital) Business Ecosystems
  2026
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• The 'Shared' and 'Open' Innovation Paradigm: Re-Conceptualising the Competition Law and IP Interface in (Digital) Business Ecosystems
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6774018
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• 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 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf019
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• Power, Knowledge and Technology in a Finite World
  Review of Political Economy 2025 DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2025.2524265
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• The US National Security State and Big Tech: frenemy relations and innovation planning in turbulent times
  2025 DOI: 10.4337/9781035357178.00009
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• Industry 4.0: a global North and global South perspective
  Revue d'économie industrielle 2024 DOI: 10.4000/12k1u
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• A fit-for-purpose platform research agenda for a broken world
  Platforms & Society 2024 DOI: 10.1177/29768624241263951
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• Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America
  Development and Change 2024 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12839
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• 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 : RIPE 2024 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2024.2365757
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