This IKD project, with collaborators in Italy, India, Tanzania and Brazil, was launched in 2008 to research the connections between innovation and equity. It focuses on health care as this represents a crucial issue and “example” in the analysis of the interrelations between innovation and inequality. The aim is to tackle the issue by bringing… more
INNOGEN is the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics, for which Professor Mazzucato is the Economics Director. Formed in October 2002, it is part of the ESRC Genomics Network studying the evolution of genomics and life sciences and their far-reaching social and economic implications. The life sciences have the potential to… more
INNOV-EQ, founded by Professor Mazzucato, brings together innovation economists, economic historians and industrial economists to think creatively about the way that innovation and inequality co-evolve – and how this relationship has changed over the course of capitalism. While this concept was central in the analysis of the Classical economists, it has been largely forgotten in contemporary… more
DIME is a network of Excellence sponsored by the EU 6th Framework Programme focusing on the role of Europe in the global knowledge economy. It takes a broad perspective covering: geography, evolutionary economics, institutional economics, organisation and management science and other relevant disciplines economics, institutional economics, organization and management science, and other relevant disciplines. more
The UK government is drawing back the role of the State in the economy, hoping that the private sector will step in, and growth will flourish. Specific hopes are being set around investment in the Green economy, as many countries including the US and China, and also the EC-2020 strategy, are developing strategic visions around… more
Innovation Knowledge and Development Centre (IKD) is an inter-faculty research centre at the Open University, founded by Professor Mazzucato in 2004 and directed from 2004 to 2009. IKD brings together different perspectives on the ways that technology creation, knowledge and innovation can contribute to inclusive and sustainable patterns of development. IKD’s strength comes from its ability… more
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), launched with a $50 million pledge from George Soros to promote changes in economic theory and practice through conferences, grants and education initiatives, has selected Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet) to be awarded a project grant (USD 120K) to analyse the ways in which an important financial institution – the… more