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SUMMARY:Cecilia Rikap (University College London (UCL))
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/274/
 ">"Intellectual Monopolies" in the AI Age (Understanding Control Beyond Ow
 nership)</a>\nby Cecilia Rikap (University College London (UCL)) as part o
 f Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThis seminar will feature a presen
 tation by Dr. Cecilia Rikap\, Argentine academic\, currently Associate Pro
 fessor in Economics and the Head of Research at the Institute for Innovati
 on and Public Purpose at the University College London (UCL).\n\n​Cecili
 a will share her work on "Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownershi
 p in AI." Cecilia studies the rising concentration of intangible assets fo
 cusing on the emergence of intellectual monopolies\, among others from tec
 h and pharma industries\, the distribution of intellectual (including data
 ) rents\, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of intellectual 
 monopoly capitalism on the knowledge commons and development. Her research
  also deals with understanding intellectual monopolies as corporate planne
 rs replacing state functions.\n\n​She authored the award-winning book Ca
 pitalism\, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovere
 d (Routledge\, 2021) and co-authored The Digital Innovation Race (Palgrave
  Macmillan\, 2021). Her forthcoming book\, The Rulers: Corporate Power in 
 the Age of AI and the Cloud will come out with Verso in 2026.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/274/
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