Swimming Against the Current: The Rise of a Hidden Developmental State in the United States

By F. Block. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2015, unknown): “It builds on the notion of the ‘Developmental State’ (Block 2008; Chang 2008; Johnson 1982) pushing it further by focusing on the type of risk that the public sector has been willing to absorb and take on.”
Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms (2014, background): “With regard to the former aspect, IVCs usually wait to support ventures until they are capable of presenting a commercial prototype of a product or a service (Block, 2008; Mazzucato, 2011).”
Where do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the U.S. Economy, 1970-2006 (2009, methodology): “Since the programmes are largely unknown, they simply do not figure in public policy debates (Block, 2008).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS AND GROWTH ORIENTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2014, background): “3 Over the past twenty years there has been an escalation in both the quantity of policy initiatives and the level of funding committed to these activities in a process termed the ‘developmental’ state (Rodrik, 2004; Block, 2008).”
State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies (2020, background): “…at the expense of others that might be less visible but equally important (for instance, the ‘hidden’ industrial policy in the United States, e.g. Block, 2008; Wade, 2012), or, as a matter of fact, policy interventions that are both very visible and very important but simply not considered by…”
Varieties of capitalism and clean energy transitions in the European Union: When renewable energy hits different economic logics (2016, background): “This role of the state is not confined to CMEs, but as argued by Block (2008), behind the ideological ‘veil of market liberalism’ even classical LMEs such as the US have established a massive ‘hidden developmental state’ in order to enhance the competitiveness of their high-tech industries (see…”
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era (2020, unknown): “13 See, for instance, Block (2008), Di Tommaso and Schweitzer (2013); Mazzucato (2013), Di Tommaso et al. (2020c); Tassinari (2019).”
From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy (2016, background): “Indeed, the success of innovative public organizations like DARPA in the US Department of Defense, which has been responsible for the financing of Arpanet (the seed of the Internet), has been attributed to the attention it paid to internal organizational dynamics, which nurtured experimentation and ”
Inside the high-tech black box: A critique of technology entrepreneurship policy (2014, background): “These ‘hidden’ forms of support are often horizontal policies aimed at enhancing the entrepreneurial business climate within economies (Block, 2008).”
A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value (2018, background): “…in this process by facilitating network building and greater strategic co-ordination between key actors within the regional eco-system (Foray, 2015; Block, 2008), while simultaneously devising value capture strategies and seeking to ensure that value capture does not prejudice the continuation of…”
Muppets and gazelles: political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research (2014, unknown): “Other successful firms, such as Google, drew on public sector research (Block 2008: 195; Mazzucato, 2011), suggesting successful entrepreneurial firms are often the consequence of public policy, not an alternative to it.”
Mission impossible? Entrepreneurial universities and peripheral regional innovation systems (2016, background): “12 “hidden” innovation expenditure often occurs (Block, 2008).”
Building a hidden investment state? The European Investment Bank, national development banks and European economic governance (2019, background): “To this end, we draw on recent attempts defining states as ‘developmental networks states’ (Block 2008) or as ‘entrepreneurial’ (Mazzucato 2015) when they dispose over governmental agencies, including state-owned investment”