The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

By Mariana Mazzucato. 2015

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The role of government policy in entrepreneurship development (2014, background): “Recently, OECD as well as European Union has in strong terms recommended innovation as a strategic driver for economic development [33].”
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education (2015, unknown): “It was during this period that the World Bank in particular – in part based on the infamous ‘rate of return to investments in education’ study (Psacharopoulos et al. 1986) – concluded that development efforts in Africa should be refocused to concentrate on primary education. This is clearly evident ”
A toolkit of policies to promote innovation (2019, background): “On the other hand, there are also many examples of impressive inventions built on governmentsponsored research and development, such as jet engines, radar, nuclear power, GPS and the Internet (Janeway, 2012, and Mazzucato, 2013).”
Mission-oriented innovation policy and dynamic capabilities in the public sector (2018, background): “…1985) This ambition – both in problems the organizations of this era took on as well as in the scale of investment – brought both massive successes and spill-overs (Block and Keller 2011, Mazzucato 2013), but also played a crucial role in the demise of this generation of mission-oriented policies.”
Left to Other Peoples’ Devices? A Political Economy Perspective on the Big Data Revolution in Development (2017, background): “It may also be instructive to learn lessons from the ‘digital protectionism’ policies of the EU and China (Azmeh and Foster, 2016) as well as to acknowledge the strong role of the US government in building US technological domination (Block and Keller, 2011; Mazzucato, 2013; Weiss, 2014).”
Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (2020, background): “The best example in this regard is the US government, which initially ﬁnanced the developments of technologies for the computer, the internet, the semi-conductor, etc. through public funding of R&D (Berger, 2013; Block and Keller, 2011; Mazzucato, 2013).”
Putting value creation back into “public value”: from market-fixing to market-shaping (2019, background): “In particular, in the area of technological development, governments have played a key role in promoting innovation (Perez 2010; Block and Keller 2011; Mazzucato 2013, 2016).”
Building a hidden investment state? The European Investment Bank, national development banks and European economic governance (2019, unknown): “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 banks, that are ‘able to take risks and create a highly networked system of…”
The impact of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies on the low-carbon transition (2019, background): “…green sovereign bonds because they allow us to focus on the “entrepreneurial” role of the government in opening and creating new markets (in this case, the green energy market) by decreasing risk perception of private investors by assuming risks that the privates may not afford (Mazzucato, 2013).”
[Accepted Manuscript] Narratives of Promise, Narratives of Caution: A Review of the Literature on Social Impact Bonds (2016, background): “Furthermore, authors such as Mazzucato (2013) highlight the relative superiority of the public sector to innovate and take risks.”