List of Talks

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Keynote at the GovSatCom Conference on European Defence and Security 2016. Event website.

Budapest, Hungary – Speaking on ‘Economics of Innovation’ at the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Plenary Piecing Together a Paradigm. Event website.

Brighton, UK – Keynote on ‘Rethinking the public-private ‘deal’ at the Institute of Development Studies 50th Conference on ‘States, Markets and Society’. Event website.

Aylesbury, UK – Keynote at the Wealth Conference organised by the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford and co-hosted by The Rothschild Foundation and Citi. Event website.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Professor Mazzucato receives honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de General San Martín (UNSAM)

Maastricht, Netherlands – Professor Mazzucato’s lecture  “The Entrepreneurial State: Who made your phone smart?”
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Rotterdam, Netherlands – Keynote at Robeco Outlook 2016

New York, USA – Talk to mark the launch of the new US edition of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths on ‘Innovation and inequality: public risks, private rewards’ followed by a discussion with Rana Foroohar, Assistant Managing Editor, Time Magazine and Mark Setterfield, Professor of Economics, The New School.
Event website       Interview with Professor Mazzucato

SPRU, University of Sussex, UK – 25/28 August, Present paper on ‘Picking winners’ and socio-technical transitions: Theory and practice of targeted science, technology and innovation policies from an economics perspective’.

San Sebastian, Spain – Keynote to conference organised by San Sebastian City Council Economic Development Department.

Lisbon, Portugal – Discussion centred on ‘O Estado Empreendedor’, alongside Head of Portuguese Socialist Party, Antonio Costa.

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London, United Kingdom – Debating “Should Government provide a digital platform or should it be the digital platform?,” with Mike Bracken, Exectuive Director of Digital, The Cabinet Office, Tom Baker, Development Director, BT Global Service,s Professor Helen Margetts, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and chaired by Chi Onwurah, Shadow Cabinet Minister

London, UK – Keynote on “The Economics of Innovation” for the UK Financial Times conference Innovate 2014.

Washington DC, USA – The conference is organised by Joseph Stiglitz with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Initiative for Policy Dialogue in collaboration with Brookings Institution.

Banff, Canada – Keynote speech to the forum “Economic and Social Order: Evolution or Revolution?”.

Forum programme

New York, USA – Governments around the world have made it a priority to spark entrepreneurship and innovation- led growth. But there is little consensus about how governments and the private sector can best work together to bring about such growth. At this conference, we are linking science, business and policy-making by exploring the role of governments and the private sector in financing innovation.

Conference programme

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Trento, Italy – Keynote by Mazzucato titled “Public or Private: Where do Great Innovations Come From?”

Copenhagen, Denmark – Mazzucato gave a keynote presentation on her book “The Entrepreneurial State”.

Rome, Italy – Mazzucato is a keynote speaker for the conference “What Europe Stands For – Growth, jobs and rights: will the European Union rise to the occasion?”.

Ferrara, Italy – Mazzucato spoke in the section “La finanza contro i cittadini” at the Festival Internazionale.

Brighton, UK – Mazzucato spoke at the Big Innovation Centre event at the Labour Party Conference. The event will look at the potential of new types of banking business models which will aim to remove the structural barriers in our economy as well as the opportunity for business accelerator initiatives to build truly supportive environments around small innovative companies.

Brighton, UK – Mazzucato spoke at the High Pay Centre event at the Labour Party Conference.  Focusing on executive pay specifically. The discussion will be asking why the current system of executive remuneration needs to change based on lessons we have learnt around the pay debate this year, who is responsible for affecting that change and what changes might need to be introduced.

Beijing, China – Mazzucato gave a talk on the work on “The Entrepreneurial State; debunking public vs. private sector myths” at the Chinese Academy of Science and Techonology for Development(CASTED).

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Mazzucato spoke on the subject of State Investment Banks andthe Entrepreneurial State and presented a paper with Caetano Penna at the conference on Financial Institutions for Innovation and Development.

London, United Kingdom – Mazzucato was a speaker at the parliamentary debate on the key drivers of the UK’s innovation system, titled “Which contributes more to British innovation –research tax credits or  universities?“.

London, United Kingdom – Mazzucato was one of the discussion panel members in the section “What kind of private sector do we need?” of the Labour Party Policy Review in December 2012.