Tech Giants’ Corporate Innovation Systems

Cecilia Rikap () and Bengt-Åke Lundvall
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Cecilia Rikap: City, University of London

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Digital Innovation Race, 2021, pp 43-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we show that tech giants organize what we define as corporate innovation systems from which they appropriate knowledge that they transform into intangible assets garnering intellectual rents. We define corporate innovation systems as systems that are organized and controlled by an intellectual monopoly and include a multitude of more or less subordinate organizations participating in production and innovation networks. The chapter studies selected US and Chinese tech giants’ corporate innovation systems through an analysis of their scientific publications’ co-authoring organizations, their participation in the open-source software environment and start-up acquisitions.

Keywords: Tech giants; Corporate innovation systems; Open-source software; Technology acquisitions; Knowledge predation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89443-6_3

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