The Digital Innovation Race

Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order

Cecilia Rikap, Bengt-Åke Lundvall

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
10 December 2021

Economics of industrial organisation; Business innovation; Business competition; Research & development management; Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation

This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism. It shows how giant corporations establish themselves as intellectual monopolies and how each of them builds and controls its own corporate innovation system. It presents an analysis of a new form of production where Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, and their counterparts in China, extract value and appropriate intellectual rents through privileged access to AI algorithms trained by data from organizations and individuals all around the world.

These companies’ specific form of production and rent-seeking takes place at the global level and challenges national governments trying to regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger national innovation systems. It is within this context that the authors provide new insights on the complex interplay between corporate and national innovation systems by looking at the US-China conflict, understood as a struggle for global technological supremacy. The book ends with alternative scenarios of global governance and advances policy recommendations as well as calls for social activism.

This book will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners (both from national states and international organizations) and professionals working on innovation, digital capitalism and related topics.

By: Cecilia Rikap, Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 438g
ISBN: 9783030894429
ISBN 10: 3030894428
Pages: 197
Publication Date: 10 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: A global race between giant corporations and nation states.- Chapter 2: Tech giants as intellectual monopolies.- Chapter 3: Tech giants’ corporate innovation systems.- Chapter 4: Tech giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System.- Chapter 5: Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the emerging AI technology trajectory.- Chapter 6: China’s catching-up process and its emergence as a potential lead country in Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: AI policies and politics in China and the US between techno-globalism and techno-nationalism.- Chapter 8: Alternative futures and what is to be done.

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor emeritus in economics at Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University and Professor emeritus at Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to innovation systems and learning economies. Cecilia Rikap is Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, CONICET researcher and associate researcher at COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research deals with the global political economy of science, technology and innovation.