🎧 The Innovation Economy

My conversation with economist, Mariana Mazzucato

Hi,

Today I’m bringing you my full conversation with one of the most sought-after economists, Professor Mariana Mazzucato. Her work has influenced the way we think about value, wealth, and the public sector’s role in creating the most influential technology companies.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• [01:00] The role of the entrepreneurial state: moving away from the conceptualization of the state as a facilitator and towards the state as an actor in the future of public-serving innovation.

• [4:49] The need for a risk-taking civil service to help foster a creative public sector, [13:18] how to monitor risk and [17:56] whether the entrepreneurial state can perform the role of the market in identifying and discarding bad ideas.

• [9:15] The role of public investment, procurement funds and long-term finance versus tax-breaks and venture capital as an investment strategy.

• [14:32] The role of problems in mission-led innovation – and how we can apply mission-oriented models to societal (as well as…