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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
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