Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor emeritus in economics at Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University and Professor emeritus at Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to innovation systems and learning economies.  Cecilia Rikap is Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, CONICET researcher and associate researcher at COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research deals with the global political economy of science, technology and innovation.

• Chapter 1: A global race between giant corporations and nation states.- Chapter 2: Tech giants as intellectual monopolies.- Chapter 3: Tech giants’ corporate innovation systems.- Chapter 4: Tech giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System.- Chapter 5: Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the emerging AI technology trajectory.- Chapter 6: China’s catching-up process and its emergence as a potential lead country in Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: AI policies and politics in China and the US between techno-globalism and techno-nationalism.- Chapter 8: Alternative futures and what is to be done.

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor emeritus in economics at Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University and Professor emeritus at Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to innovation systems and learning economies.  Cecilia Rikap is Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, CONICET researcher and associate researcher at COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research deals with the global political economy of science, technology and innovation.

• Chapter 1: A global race between giant corporations and nation states.- Chapter 2: Tech giants as intellectual monopolies.- Chapter 3: Tech giants’ corporate innovation systems.- Chapter 4: Tech giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System.- Chapter 5: Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the emerging AI technology trajectory.- Chapter 6: China’s catching-up process and its emergence as a potential lead country in Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: AI policies and politics in China and the US between techno-globalism and techno-nationalism.- Chapter 8: Alternative futures and what is to be done.

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor emeritus in economics at Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University and Professor emeritus at Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to innovation systems and learning economies.  Cecilia Rikap is Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, CONICET researcher and associate researcher at COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research deals with the global political economy of science, technology and innovation.

• Chapter 1: A global race between giant corporations and nation states.- Chapter 2: Tech giants as intellectual monopolies.- Chapter 3: Tech giants’ corporate innovation systems.- Chapter 4: Tech giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System.- Chapter 5: Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the emerging AI technology trajectory.- Chapter 6: China’s catching-up process and its emergence as a potential lead country in Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: AI policies and politics in China and the US between techno-globalism and techno-nationalism.- Chapter 8: Alternative futures and what is to be done.