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Mariana Mazzucato

@mazzucatom.bsky.social

Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose www.marianamazzucato.com

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Study with us @iipp-ucl.bsky.social!
 
Thrilled to offer this fully funded PhD opportunity with a research focus on outcomes-oriented approaches to green industrial strategy. 
 
Apply by December 14th  ➡️ buff.ly/dbY2S4h

28.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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The lessons learned from COVID-19 matter & can inform outcomes-oriented industrial strategy.

Tom Stratton, Sion Williams-Eliyesil & I explore how the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine provides a framework for future proactive state intervention.

Read the paper ➡️ buff.ly/TyquNPc

27.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 Are you ready to lead change in a complex, interconnected world? Join our Virtual Open Day on 6 November, 13:00-14:00, to discover the Innovation, Public Policy & Public Value MPA at UCL.

🔗 Book your place today: buff.ly/Qf97Xhb

#PostgraduateStudy #Innovation #TheBartlett #UCL #VirtualOpenDay

23.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump 2.0 seems to embrace state capitalism — without the strategy The administration’s 10% equity stake in Intel looks like an embrace of state capitalism, but economist Mariana Mazzucato warns the move is unaligned with any strategy.

Listen to the full episode ➡️ www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Read our piece in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ➡️ www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/is-t...
More in my book Mission Economy ➡️ marianamazzucato.com/books/missio... 3/3

25.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump 2.0 seems to embrace state capitalism — without the strategy The administration’s 10% equity stake in Intel looks like an embrace of state capitalism, but economist Mariana Mazzucato warns the move is unaligned with any strategy.

Great to speak with @kairyssdal.bsky.social for Marketplace about how the US has always practiced industrial policy, just without admitting it or building the strategy and coordination needed for economic transformation. 2/3

25.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

The US talks Jefferson but acts Hamilton: claiming free markets whilst the state has always driven innovation—from DARPA funding the internet to NIH investing $40bn annually in health research that created entire industries. 1/3

25.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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Assessing Dynamic Capabilities in City Governments: Creating a Public Sector Capabilities Index Authored by Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato, Ruth Puttick, Bec Chau, Dan Hill, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Anna Goulden, Kwame Baafi, Manuel Maldonado Acosta, Mia Tarp, Nai Lee Kalema and Fernando Monge

Read more about the Public Sector Capabilities index from @IIPP_UCL ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

23.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights Authored by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, Sarah Doyle and Luca Kuehn von Burgsdorff

Read more on mission-oriented industrial strategy ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

23.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Building capacity starts with reframing what the state is for – not just a fixing markets but actively shaping the economy towards clear outcomes.

Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...

23.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I'll be speaking to Kai Ryssdal for NPR Marketplace about Trumponomics.

Tune in live at 17:00 ET / 14:00 PT / 22:00 BST ➡️ www.kcrw.com

Read more in my piece on US equity stakes in Intel ➡️ www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/is-t...

22.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Last night I spoke to Founders Pledge about the role of the entrepreneurial state and why we need to obsess less about the lone “entrepreneur” and build stronger entrepreneurial eco-systems.

Learn more about The Entrepreneurial State ➡️ marianamazzucato.com/books/the-en...

22.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great to meet (finally) with Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama today in London discussing how to put arts and culture at the centre of economic transformation.

Read more of our work on Public Value of the Arts & Culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

21.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Read more in our G20 discussion paper ➡️ g20.org/wp-content/u...

21.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Solidarity, equality, sustainability’: three themes at the centre of South Africa's G20 Presidency.

This morning I spoke at #FTAfrica Summit on the need to ensure this G20 summit is not wasted by placing these three themes at the centre of the global financial system and green industrial strategy.

21.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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For the first time, the G20 is meeting on African soil. Tomorrow, I'll join #FTAfrica to discuss how we move beyond fragmented approaches of economic governance toward a framework that aligns finance & industrial policy for inclusive & sustainable growth.

Our G20 discussion paper ➡️ buff.ly/wBi1Uqc

20.10.2025 18:06 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Pleased to host artists, cultural organisations, and policymakers tomorrow at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social to discuss how we can rethink value frameworks to maximise the impact of arts and culture - placing them at the heart of our economy.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/bw9sYuB

20.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights Authored by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, Sarah Doyle and Luca Kuehn von Burgsdorff

Read more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

18.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ORIGINAL VERSION - PES Congress 2025 - Day 2 Follow the livestream of the second day of the PES Congress here on 18 October.

Honoured to address the PES Congress #ProgressiveMobilisation in Amsterdam at 10:15 CET on outcomes-oriented industrial strategy for a just green transition. The question today is not whether industrial policy is back, but what kind of industrial policy, how it is designed & for whom.

Watch here ⬇️

18.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Autumn Lecture Series 2025: Christian Aid Lecture with Mariana Mazzucato (06.10)
Autumn Lecture Series 2025: Christian Aid Lecture with Mariana Mazzucato (06.10)

Last week I delivered the 2025 Christian Aid annual lecture outlining this approach: directing economic growth through an Economics of the Common Good. #CALecture25 2/2

Watch the full lecture ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kH...

17.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Directing Economic Growth: A common good approach Last week, I had the honour of delivering the 2025 Christian Aid Annual Lecture at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London. The lecture, titled “Directing Economic Growth: A common good approach,”…

Creating an economy oriented toward the common good requires fundamental changes in how we understand value creation, how we structure relationships between public and private sectors, and how we measure economic success.

Read my latest article ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

17.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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On this #WorldFoodDay, read our latest report that shows how school meals, if designed right, can catalyse innovation across food systems, leading to healthier greener communities while strengthening local economies in the process.

Read more in our report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

16.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Sarah Doyle

Spending on school meals reaches $84 billion USD globally – this money could be used to feed children healthy, tasty, nutritious meals while also stimulating green and inclusive economic growth across food and agricultural industries.

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... 2/2

16.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On #WorldFoodDay, we share our work explaining how school meals can be part of an inclusive green industrial strategy.

Read more in our report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... 1/2

16.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Urgent calls for debt relief as study shows health and education cuts in developing world Influential economists want replenishment of funds and new ways to define countries in need before this week’s IMF and World Bank meetings

Read our open letter ➡️ data.one.org/2025-debt-op...
More in the Guardian ➡️ www.theguardian.com/business/202... 2/2

14.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The debt crisis is a development & investment crisis. In the Global South, debt repayments crowd out investment in education, healthcare & climate resilience. We call on the World Bank & IMF to acknowledge the impacts of the global debt crisis & take action to drive inclusive & sustainable growth.

14.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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This morning, I shared lessons from @iipp-ucl.bsky.social work on cities with mayors from 30 cities across Europe. Great to discuss the skills & tools needed to scale up local innovations for public value.

The new IIPP report from the Public Sector Capabilities Index ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

09.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Assessing Dynamic Capabilities in City Governments: Creating a Public Sector Capabilities Index Authored by Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato, Ruth Puttick, Bec Chau, Dan Hill, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Anna Goulden, Kwame Baafi, Manuel Maldonado Acosta, Mia Tarp, Nai Lee Kalema and Fernando Monge

This morning, I’ll speak with mayors from 30 cities @bloomberg.com on how we can shape markets at the local level & what tools are needed to get there.

The new report from UCL IIPP on the Public Sector Capabilities Index ➡️ buff.ly/2kqNQXy

Our work on global missions ➡️ buff.ly/ToIjhQC

09.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Read @iipp-ucl.bsky.social’s report on the Public Sector Capabilities Index ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

More on the consultification of Government in my book #TheBigCon here ➡️ marianamazzucato.com/books/the-bi...

08.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The biggest challenges of our time require building dynamic capabilities in the public sector, not outsourcing to consultants. This afternoon I spoke at Apolitical’s #ApoliticalDay with @robynscott.bsky.social and policymakers on the urgent need to build state capacity.

08.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Governing the economics of the common good: from correcting market failures to shaping collective goals To meet today’s grand challenges, economics requires an understanding of how common objectives may be collaboratively set and met. Tied to the assumption that the state can, at best, fix market fai...

More on this in my paper defining an Economics of the Common Good ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stay tuned for my new book coming next spring: The Common Good Economy.

07.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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