Cecilia Rikap

Cecilia Rikap is associate professor in economics and head of research at the University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. Her research is rooted in the international political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovation. Cecilia has advised policymakers, legislators and regulatory authorities in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the European Commission, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay. Her book, Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered, won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition in 2023.