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DCLG Seminar: Mariana Mazzucato - From market fixing to market making: Implications for smart and inclusive growth
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2 Marsham Street
Room 5A and 5B London SW1P 4DF United KingdomDescription
In this Economic and Social Research seminar, join Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the University of Sussex, to discuss implications for smart and inclusive growth.
Mariana will consider a dynamic economic policy framework which focuses on market shaping and market making rather than the traditional focus on market failure and market fixing. In this regard, she will consider four key policy questions: how to “pick” directions and ’tilt the playing’ field in that direction; how to build learning organizations in the public sector which welcome trial and error; how to evaluate dynamic market making investments beyond static cost-benefit analysis; and how risks and rewards can be shared allowing growth to be more inclusive.
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL) where she is establishing a new Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (launching Autumn 2017). Mazzucato’s highly-acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (Anthem 2013; Public Affairs, 2015) was on the 2013 Books of the Year list of the Financial Times. She is winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy and the 2015 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis and in 2013 she was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' in the New Republic.
She has advised policy makers around the world on innovation-led growth and is currently a member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors; the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Economics of Innovation and SITRA’s (Finnish Innovation Fund) Advisory Panel. Her current research projects include two funded by the EC Horizon 2020 programme: Innovation-fuelled, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth (ISIGrowth) and Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society (Dolfins) and a new project on Rethinking Medical Innovation by the Open Society Foundations. Her recent research includes projects funded by the Ford Foundation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and work commissioned by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Brazilian Ministry for Science and Technology.
She is co-editor of a new book Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (Wiley Blackwell, July 2016), and is currently writing The Value of Everything, which will be published by Penguin’s Allen Lane in 2017.
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