Cecilia Rikap (Ph.D. in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is a lecturer in international political economy at the City University of London, a tenured researcher at CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. Among other academic roles, she is the Director of BSc in IPE at City University of London. She is also the author of ‘Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered’ (Routledge, 2020) and ‘The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order’ (Palgrave, 2021), the latter co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall.