ABSTRACT
So far, exploring only the abstract logic of what is presupposed by systemic markets, we have explicated six crucial concepts for a political economy of research and innovation, namely:
value;
labour (as source and substance of value);
fictitious commodities;
emergence of the real totality of the ‘economy’;
the inherent improbability of capital accumulation; and
the constitutive role of extra-economic, including political and cultural, conditions.
