Cecilia Rikap

Cecilia Rikap is an Argentine political economist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of capitalism, innovation, and intellectual property. She is a professor and senior research fellow whose scholarship critically examines the power dynamics of global knowledge economies and corporate monopolies over technology. She is the author of "Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered", a groundbreaking study of how dominant corporations leverage intellectual property to consolidate economic power. Rikap is affiliated with leading academic institutions in Europe and Latin America and is recognized as a bold and rigorous voice in heterodox economics and development studies.