This article elaborates on intellectual monopoly theory as a form of predation and rentiership
using Amazon as a case study. By analysing Amazon's financial statements, scientific …

This paper focuses on tech giants as active drivers of a phase of globalization characterized
by growth in digital services trade combined with a general shift to intangible assets. By …

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or
intellectual monopolies. The book's unique perspective focuses on how private ownership …

The paper applies the radical view of Monopoly Capitalism to the digital platform economy.
Based on the seminal ideas of Hymer and Zeitlin that led Cowling and Sugden to define the …

Theorists of post capitalism have recently argued for a more or less inevitable end to
capitalism. They assume that private accumulation is systematically blocked by the inability …

This article theoretically and empirically analyzes leader corporations' innovation processes
in contemporary capitalism. We highlight three characteristics: their transnational scope, the …

This paper examines the origins of global leaders under intellectual monopoly capitalism.
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the leading firm in artificial intelligence applications …

Abstract Building on Schumpeter Mark I and Mark II, I propose an additional pattern of
innovation and technological regime called the intellectual monopoly (IM) to explain the co …

The collaboration leading to this book began almost two years ago and it started with a
meeting in cyberspace between two scholars with quite different backgrounds. Bengt-Åke, a …

ABSTRACT A spate of recent scandals concerning personal digital data illustrates the extent
to which innovation and finance are thoroughly entangled with one another. The innovation …