Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University
College London (UCL) where she is also Founder and Director of the Institute for Innovation
and Public Purpose. Her widely published research focuses on the relationship between public
policy innovation and economic growth and she advises policymakers around the world on how to
steer innovation so that it produces growth that is more inclusive and sustainable. She is
author of the highly acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private
Sector Myths and co-editor of Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and
Inclusive Growth . She is winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy
the 2015 Hans-Matth¿fer-Preis and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of
Economic Thought. She was named as one of the 'three most important thinkers about innovation'
in New Republic.
