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Mon, 20 November 2023

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Professor Mariana Mazzucato – Live on Stage in London

The Future of The Entrepreneurial State

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Professor Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas have changed how governments see their role in the economy – but they are still hesitant to set a sustainable and inclusive direction for innovation and growth. She joins us to share her thoughts about where we go from here.

Ten years ago Professor Mariana Mazzucato exposed the state’s crucial role in sparking innovation and growth – and the dangers of ignoring this truth. The revelations of her award-winning book The Entrepreneurial State met with global renown, and led to positions advising governments and organisations from the US Department of Commerce to the President of South Africa, the European Commission to the WHO and the UN.

Now she joins us live in London and via livestream to share her insights into why the messages of this book are more relevant now than ever. For the entrepreneurial state to roar into life, political leaders must shake off defunct economic theory. While the case the book makes for governments to invest – rather than cut – their way to growth has become a more widely accepted wisdom, governments across the globe remain reluctant to embrace their role in directing growth that is innovation-driven, inclusive and sustainable.

Whether you are a student, policymaker, or business leader, or simply curious about the possibility of a genuinely better world where innovation and growth deliver for everyone, this conversation is for you.

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Mariana Mazzucato

Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, and author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths.

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy’s highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.  As well as The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), she is the author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018), Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021), and most recently The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023). She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Recent roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.

 

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