Mariana Mazzucato: Can Nations Be Entrepreneurs?
Inequality, climate crisis and disease: three epic challenges for our times. According to Mariana Mazzucato, innovation by governments is essential to inspire public-private cooperation and bring about change from the bottom up. Meet the Professor of Economics and Director of UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, whose new book Mission Economy sets out a radical new vision for the state’s role in innovation.
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Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 Highlights 17–19 August
Gulbahar Haitiwaji: To Make Us Slowly Disappear
Christie Watson: Wild At Heart
Olivia Laing: Your Body is a Battleground
Simon Jenkins: Who Exactly Are the Celts?
Kate Atkinson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Eileen Myles: 'They' Contain Multitudes
Salman Rushdie
Stuart Cosgrove: The Soul Of Muhammad Ali
Monica Cantieni & Sunjeev Sahota (2015 Event)