Tech Giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System

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

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Digital Innovation Race, 2021, pp 65-90 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we conceptualize artificial intelligence as a technological innovation system (TIS) and use data on tech giants’ publications to analyse their crucial role in developing and shaping the system. A unique characteristic of the AI system is the integrative role of cloud computing, a set of digital services completely dominated by a handful of tech giants. We demonstrate that tech giants are at the forefront both in the development of artificial intelligence core techniques and in its functional and field applications. We point to the crucial role and limits of digital learning in shaping the future of this TIS. Rather than defining the performance of the system in terms of its expansion, we demonstrate that the dominant position of tech giants results in a problematic guidance.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Technological innovation system; Big tech; Cloud computing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89443-6_4

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