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Date: Monday 27
April 2015
Time: 5.15 –
7.00pm
Venue: Chancellors’
Building 2.6
Audience:
This
event
is free and open to all. Please register in advance via e-mail.
Speaker:
Professor
Mariana
Mazzucato, R.M. Phillips Professor in the Economics of
Innovation,
Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Abstract: This lecture will focus on the relationship
between the State and
innovation-led growth. It will introduce the possibility of the
State as market
maker and market shaper, rather than just a market fixer (as
taught in economic
textbooks).
It
will
consider various implications of viewing the state in this more
active role:
'directionality' of change; building explorative risk taking
public
organisations; evaluation of market making investments;
socialising both risks
and rewards of public investments so growth is not only smart
but also (more)
inclusive.
The
lecture
will build on Professor Mazzucato’s recent book The
Entrepreneurial
State: debunking private vs. public sector myths and on a recent
report written
for Innovate UK on A
Mission
Oriented Approach to Building the Entrepreneurial State.