The digital innovation race : conceptualizing the emerging new world order / / Cecilia Rikap and Bengt-Åke Lundvall

• Autore: Rikap Cecilia
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.4762
• Soggetto topico: High technology industries - Government policy; High technology industries - Economic aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): LundvallBengt-Åke
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 A Global Race Between Giant Corporations and Nation States -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Why Technology War? -- 1.2.1 Artificial Intelligence and the Critical Role of Big Data -- 1.2.2 Platforms, Cloud Computing and Economic Concentration -- 1.2.3 National Security, Warfare and Artificial Intelligence -- 1.2.4 Does China Constitute a Real Threat to US Supremacy? -- 1.2.5 Competing National Innovation Systems -- 1.2.6 New Patterns of Globalization and Trade -- 1.3 Presenting the Corporate Protagonists from the US and China -- 1.3.1 Mechanisms Behind World Dominance -- 1.3.2 Investments in Research and Development and Patenting -- 1.3.3 Pairwise Comparisons Between the Activities of US and Chinese Giants -- 1.3.3.1 Amazon vs. Alibaba -- 1.3.3.2 Baidu vs. Google -- 1.3.3.3 Apple vs. Huawei -- 1.3.3.4 Facebook vs. Tencent -- 1.3.4 Technological Cooperation and Competition Between Tech Giants -- 1.4 The Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Tech Giants as Intellectual Monopolies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Empirical Evidence -- 2.3 Intellectual Property Rights and Assetization of Knowledge -- 2.4 Mechanisms Behind the Emergence of Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism -- 2.4.1 The Concentration of IPRs -- 2.4.2 Intellectual Monopolies Go Far Beyond IPRs -- 2.4.3 Data-Driven Intellectual Monopolies Are Reinforced by Platform Ownership -- 2.5 Degrees of Intellectual Monopoly-a Taxonomy -- 2.5.1 Intellectual Monopoly of Second Degree -- 2.5.2 Intellectual Monopoly of Third Degree: The GPT Intellectual Monopoly -- 2.5.3 Intellectual Monopoly of Fourth Degree: The Data-Driven Intellectual Monopoly -- 2.5.4 On the Need to Rethink Innovation, Monopoly and Antitrust -- 2.6 Conclusion: Corporate Winners and Losers -- References -- 3 Tech Giants' Corporate Innovation Systems. ; 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Corporate Innovation System -- 3.3 Why Do We Need a New Concept? Revisiting the Literature -- 3.4 Outsourcing R& -- D -- 3.5 Profiting from Open-Source Software and App Developers -- 3.6 Acquiring Technology and Entering Markets Through Acquisitions or Investing in Smaller Companies -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Tech Giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Technology Innovation Systems -- 4.3 Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System -- 4.3.1 On the Geography of the AI TIS -- 4.3.2 Summing Up on the Characteristics of the AI TIS -- 4.4 AI at the Centre of Tech Giants' Research Efforts -- 4.4.1 Tech Giants Focus on Machine Learning -- 4.4.2 Tech Giants' Engagement in Generic and Specific Functional Application -- 4.4.3 Tech Giants' Dependence on Data Harvesting -- 4.5 The Actors of the AI TIS and the Unique Role of Cloud Computing -- 4.5.1 Cloud Computing and the AI TIS -- 4.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5 Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the Emerging AI Technology Trajectory -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories -- 5.1.2 Two Tech Giants' Technological Convergence -- 5.2 Methodology -- 5.2.1 Patents and Publications' Content Analyses -- 5.3 Microsoft's Technological Trajectory -- 5.3.1 Microsoft's Patent Portfolio Analysis -- 5.3.2 Microsoft's Recent Scientific Publications -- 5.4 Amazon's Technological Trajectory -- 5.4.1 Amazon's Patent Portfolio Analysis -- 5.4.2 Amazon's Recent Scientific Publications -- 5.4.3 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Figures -- References -- 6 China's Catching-Up Process and Its Emergence as a Potential Lead Country in Artificial Intelligence -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 China's National Innovation System and Its Catching up in AI. ; 6.2.1 Brief Remarks on the Evolution of China's NIS -- 6.2.2 On the STI Performance-Quality vs Quantity -- 6.2.3 China's Catching-Up in Artificial Intelligence -- 6.2.3.1 Strengths of China's AI Catching-Up -- 6.2.3.2 Weaknesses of China's AI -- 6.3 On the Co-Evolution of National and Corporate Innovation Systems -- 6.4 Conclusions -- References -- 7 AI Policies and Politics in China and the US Between Techno-Globalism and Techno-Nationalism -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 AI is Seen as a Strategic Technology in China and the US -- 7.3 The US AI Strategy: A Lead Country Defending Its Economic and Military Dominance -- 7.4 A World Economy Between Techno-Globalism and Techno-Nationalism -- 7.4.1 Is Techno-Nationalism Bad? -- 7.4.2 How the State Laid the Foundation for AI and Tech Giants in China and the US -- 7.5 Final Remarks -- References -- 8 Alternative Futures and What is to Be Done -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Predominant Policy Responses to Tech Giants: Antitrust and Digital Acts -- 8.2.1 The European Union -- 8.2.2 The United States -- 8.2.3 China -- 8.3 Alternative Futures -- 8.3.1 Antitrust and Natural Monopolies -- 8.3.2 The Role of Tech Giants and Industrial Digitalization -- 8.3.3 Data Privacy Acts or Socializing Data? -- 8.3.4 On the Future of Techno-Nationalism -- 8.4 Policy Recommendations -- 8.4.1 Focusing on Underdeveloped Countries -- 8.5 We Need More Activism -- 8.6 Final Remarks -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The digital innovation race
• ISBN: 3-030-89443-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910512175703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave pivot.