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31 Jan 2023, 17:00 – 18:30

Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy?

Join us for 'Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy', a panel event bringing together global leaders to explore the concept of the ‘entrepreneurial state’ – a state which invests public money in innovation, thereby becoming the primary financial risk-taker in new and untried technologies.

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Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy?

31 Jan 2023, 17:00 – 18:30

Professor Rainer Kattel

Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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He led Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance for 10 years, building it into one of the leading innovation and governance schools in the region. 

Professor Kattel has also served on various public policy commissions, including the Estonian Research Council and European Science Foundation. He has worked as an expert for the OECD, UNDP and the European Commission, and served as a member of E-Estonia Council advising the Prime Minister of Estonia. Currently, he leads the Estonian Government’s Gender Equality Council.

He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy.

Wolfgang Drechsler

Honorary Professor

UCL Institute for Innovation for Public Purpose

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His academic focus areas include Technology, Innovation & Governance; Non-Western paradigms of governance, especially Buddhist, Confucian, and Islamic (Southeast and East Asia); and Public Management Reform generally. He also has a strong background both in heterodox economic theory and in classical political philosophy.

He has a PhD from the Uni­ver­sity of Marburg and a SocScD (honorary doc­torate) from Cor­vi­nus Uni­versity of Bu­dapest. He has been André Molitor Chair at the Univer­sité catholique de Louvain and was previously a Visit­ing Professor at the Uni­versities of Lund and of Erfurt, at the Cen­tral University of Finance and Eco­nomics Bei­jing, at the Uni­versity of Malaya, at Zhejiang and at Gadjah Mada Univer­sities, at the Na­tional Institute for Development Admin­istration (NIDA) Bangkok, and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Na­tional Uni­versity of Singapore (full-time). In 2019, he was an ANZSOG Visiting Scholar.

Within civil service, Wolfgang has been Ad­visor to the President of Estonia, Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, an APSA Congressional Fellow as well as a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. Additionally, he has been a consultant to international institutions such as the OECD, the Council of Europe, SIGMA, the World Bank, the European Union (especially Commission and Parliament), the Inter-American De­velopment Bank, the UNDP, to national govern­ments, and to private sector organisations.

Wolfgang has received the Estonian National Science Award, the Alena Brunovskà Award for Teaching Excellence, the Maar­jamaa Rist (Estonia’s Order of Merit), the German Federal Merit Cross and the Senator Boorsma Award from SECoPA. He is author or editor of more than 20 books and journal issues and well over 100 scholarly articles.

Erkki Karo

Research Fellow

Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance

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Previously he has worked at the University of Tartu. He teaches basic and introductory courses on public administration and public management both in the Technology Governance and public administration curricula.

His research focuses on governance and public management of research and innovation policies in both developing and developed economies. He has worked on policy-related projects both for the local government and central government institutions in Estonia on different innovation policy issues (cluster policy, open innovation and innovation policy, innovation policy strategies and its’ governance).

He is a co-organizer of the permanent study group on Public Administration, Technology & Innovation at the European Group for Public Administration (www.ttu.ee/pati). Currently (until 2015) he is a principal researcher in the Research and Innovation Policy Monitoring Programme and coordinator of the ETF grant Institutions and economic development in East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Pooja Agrawal

Co-founder

Public Practice

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She is an architect and planner who works as a public servant at Homes England and previously at the Greater London Authority, Publica and We Made That.

Pooja is a Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, Associate at the Quality of Life Foundation and a member of the Design South East Review Panel.

She has previously mentored at FLUID and Stephen Lawrence Trust, and taught at Central Saint Martins.

Pooja was nominated for the Planner’s Woman of Influence in 2018 and 2019.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato

Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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She is the author of four highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013), The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018), Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021), and most recently The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023). She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council, the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors, the European Space Agency’s High-Level Advisory Group on Human and Robotic Space Exploration for Europe, and the United Nations High-level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs, among others.

Darja Isaksson

Director General

Vinnova

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In her work, she has led teams where the results have been innovative services and products used by millions of customers, as well as new ways of working with innovation. Apart from being executive advisor and board member of multiple companies, she has served as advisor to the Swedish Government in the Digitalisation council as well as the Swedish Prime Ministers Innovation Council, evaluated national research and innovation programmes and served on the board of Swedish research institutes RISE ICT and RISE Interactive.

As a result of her work, she has been awarded "Most powerful opinion maker in Sweden", and is listed as one of the "Worlds' 100 most influential people in digital government." She is the Director General of the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova since August 2018.

Mike Bracken

Partner

Public Digital

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Prior to joining the Government, Mike worked at Guardian News & Media as Digital Development Director for nearly four years; co-founded e-democracy site My Society and was a Director/Shareholder at technical services company Wavex.

Mike was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list in recognition of the digital transformation of public services, and for working to develop football in the borough of Hackney.

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

IIPP Comms

iippcomms@ucl.ac.uk