Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered - Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered -

Introduction Back to the future: Marx and Schumpeter legacy as a starting point Intellectual monopoly capitalism as a new stage of global capitalism Intellectual monopoly capitalism is a global phenomenon Intellectual monopolies are capitalist planners Innovation as a power relationship Summarizing the content of this book Notes References Intellectual monopoly capitalism The emergence of intellectual monopoly capitalism Introduction Intangible assets, rents and the emergence of intellectual monopoly capitalism Intangible assets and intellectual rents The emergence of intellectual monopolies Using innovation to subordinate others Innovation as a process under intellectual monopoly capitalism: knowledge predation Predation within the innovation process A taxonomy of subordinate firms Intellectual monopolies sources of profit Notes References Knowledge privatization and power relations in the knowledge commons Introduction Intellectual monopoly capitalism and the privatization of knowledge Knowledge commons and open access to knowledge How intellectual monopolies profit from open access and knowledge commons. Illustrative experiences Knowledge commons in the pharmaceutical innovation system Open source and the digital commons Final remarks Notes References The interplays of the United States, China and their intellectual monopolies Introduction Contribution of the US and Chinese states to the emergence of intellectual monopolies A marriage of convenience: the United States and big corporations since the Second World War US industrial cum science and technology policy since the Second World War Friendly antitrust policy and taxing system China's innovation and industrial policies How intellectual monopolies contribute to reinforce core states hegemony Clashes of power between states and intellectual monopolies Final remarks Notes References Research universities: Between subordination and intellectual monopoly Introduction The academic intellectual monopoly and subordinate research-universities Academic freedom and the definition of research agendas under intellectual monopoly capitalism Academic labour commodification Evaluation as a process that transforms academic labour A change in the benchmark from the average to the top Harmful consequences on academic labour Final remarks Notes References Global intellectual monopolies. Illustrative cases Technological cooperation and competition among big pharmaceuticals Introduction Innovation conceived as an asymmetric social relation Technological cooperation and competition between intellectual monopolies Methodological approach Main findings Scientific publications’ co-authorship Patents’ co-ownership analysis Funding sources Final remarks Notes References Apple: from legal towards data-driven intellectual rentiership Introduction Further conceptualizing intellectual monopolies: types of intangible rents Vertical natural monopoly intangible rents Intangibles' legal monopoly rents and the innovation monopoly Data-driven intellectual monopoly Apple’s intellectual monopoly Apple’s GVC through the lenses of vertical natural monopoly rents Apple's innovation monopoly rents Apple's corporate innovation system Apple's quest for data-driven innovation rents Apple’s interplay between intellectual and financial rentierism Concluding remarks Notes References Amazon’s data-driven intellectual monopoly Introduction The limits of GVC and platforms to understand emerging industrial organization patterns Intellectual monopolies’ production and innovation networks Amazon’s data-driven intellectual monopoly Amazon’s innovation networks Factors reinforcing Amazon’s power as a data-driven intellectual monopoly Amazon’s political power Final remarks Notes References Appendix: methodology State Grid Corp: an intellectual monopoly relying on China’s innovation system Introduction How to become an intellectual monopoly The alignment of SGCC to China’s innovation and energy policies Methodology SGCC: on the way to becoming a transnational intellectual monopoly SGCC’s scientific publications SGCC’s patent portfolio Final remarks Notes References Appendix Rentiership, predation and their implications for workers Introduction The interplay between rentiership, predation and capital accumulation The growing importance of data-driven innovation rents Marx on rents and Veblen on predation Why is it useful to distinguish between rentiership and predation?Intellectual monopolies as financial rentiers The effects of predation and rentiership on capital accumulation Implications for workers Final remarks Notes References Effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism on the peripheries Why we need new development policies under intellectual monopoly capitalism Introduction Policy recommendations for technological autonomy at the national and firm levels Innovation studies: the state as the architect of the system The entrepreneurial state Global value chains and catching-up Shortfalls of innovation systems and GVC policy recommendations Not an emerging but a structurally incomplete innovation system Further limitations to the entrepreneurial state Downgrading and global poverty chains Intellectual monopolies narrow windows of opportunity Final remarks Notes References Singapore’s innovation hub. A source of rents for intellectual monopolies Introduction Knowledge hubs: the case of Singapore Approach and methodology Empirical findings NUS and NTU patents and collaborations with industry Start-ups and university spin-offs in Singapore Distribution of innovation rents in Singapore Discussion and concluding remarks Funding Notes References Appendix Pharmaceutical knowledge extractivism from a semi-peripheral university Introduction Knowledge extractivism from the peripheries under intellectual monopoly capitalism Complementing existing indicators for studying university’s technology transfer Knowledge extractivism from the UBA’spharmacy research Indicators based on measuring universities’ economic return from university-industry collaborations The UBA’s contribution to global innovation networks assessed from an analysis of its scientific publications Blind knowledge transfer University-industry co-authorship Discussion and final remarks Notes References Tilting the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism Introduction A new (common) knowledge regime Containment measures against data-driven intellectual monopolies Beyond taking containment measures, an offensive step for the peripheries Limiting all forms of extractivism*Knowledge extractivism Data extractivism Planning public production and innovation networks Counterbalancing intellectual monopoly capitalism Final remarks on the role of social scientists and science in general Notes References