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The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Festival: The Entrepreneurial State 2.0. offered a public platform for global leaders, policymakers, and practitioners to rethink the state.
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The Entrepreneurial State 2.0 Festival offered a public platform for global leaders, policymakers, and practitioners to rethink the state in the 21st century. The festival engaged and invited a global audience to explore topics such as digital infrastructures for state innovation; the tensions and conflicts in changing the narrative and reshaping the global economy; the ways to govern finance more effectively to meet global challenges; how governments can build both long-term capacity and dynamic capabilities; specific challenges facing developing countries; and much more.
View the insightful panel discussions, workshops and practice-focused convening to advance a bold view of the state as a key driver of challenge-oriented innovation, one that unleashes the creative potential of the public sector, unlocks new green markets for businesses, and ensures economic opportunity and security for citizens.
The Festival also celebrated the 5th anniversary of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the 10th anniversary of the publication of Professor Mariana Mazzucato’s book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking public vs. private sector myths.
Events
Digital leadership in the entrepreneurial state
Are states ready to implement the new digital transformation strategies? What skills do public servants require to be effective in the digital era, and how will governments respond to these demands? Who will lead the changes needed to enhance innovation and digitalise governments?
The panel discussion was chaired by Dr David Eaves, Associate Professor in Digital Government at UCL IIPP in conversation with panellists Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of UCL IIPP Jennifer Pahlka, Founder of Code for America and US Deputy Chief Technology Officer (June 2013- June 2014), Mike Bracken, world leader in digital government and Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL IIPP and Nai Kalema, PhD Candidate at UCL IIPP.
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The entrepreneurial state as a welfare state
Is a strong welfare state important for allowing would-be innovators to take risks? Is social spending simply underpinning aggregate demand, one of the key drivers of productivity growth? Or is an investment in specific public services, such as healthcare and education, helping to create the healthy, highly-skilled and resourceful workforce that supports innovation?
Watch the video of this panel discussion chaired by IIPP's Dr Craig Berry, Associate Professor in Economic Policy, in conversation with Dr Nick O'Donovan, Senior Lecturer, Future Economies Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, Hilary Cottam, social entrepreneur and Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), Anna Coote, Principal Fellow at the New Economics Foundation and Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council.
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Governing finance for people and planet
Why has post-crisis financial policy failed to deliver a better financial system and how can we govern finance more effectively to meet global challenges, including climate change, biodiversity risks and economic development?
Watch the video of this panel discussion chaired by Dr Josh Ryan-Collins, Associate Professor in Economics and Finance at UCL IIPP in conversation with Anne Pettifor, Political Economist, Author and Debt Campaigner, Brett Christophers, Professor of Geography at Uppsala University and Ingrid Holmes, Executive Director of the Green Finance Institute. to explore the role of central banks and financial regulation in better aligning financial flows with wider national and international goals.
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Mission-oriented innovation: The state of play
Via a rich agenda of interactive plenary and case sessions, the gathering has been a unique opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with MOIN members, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose faculty, students and wider networks. It focused on the state of play in implementing ambitious industrial and innovation missions to tackle 21st century grand challenges – including discussion on the implementation of industrial policy to steer green growth and the evolving role of public innovation agencies to meet grand challenges.
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Creative bureaucracies and sustainable growth
Understanding how successful innovations build on bureaucracies and how such bureaucracies are established and evolve is essential to envision and implement an entrepreneurial state. What are the emerging technological and socio-economic challenges? How can governments build both long-term capacity and dynamic capabilities?
Watch the video of this panel discussion chaired by Prof Rainer Kattel, Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at IIPP, to learn more about 'innovation bureaucracy'.
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The entrepreneurial state in developing countries
The entrepreneurial state has demonstrated that it can generate and promote innovation; however, its implementation meets different challenges within developing economies.
Watch the video of this panel discussion chaired by Dr Carolina Alves, Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL IIPP in conversation with panellists Dr Farwa Sial, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer - Development Finance, EURODAD, Dr Lucia Pradella, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, King's College London and Prof. Julio D. Dávila, UCL Professor of Urban Policy and International Development, to assess the role of the Entrepreneurial State within developing countries.
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Systems and power
This panel will discuss the politics of the Entrepreneurial State. Considering reforms have winners and losers, what coalitions could support these changes? Who should have a place at the decision-making table? Could social movements and grassroots collective action have a role in shaping the Entrepreneurial State.
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IIPP 5-Year Anniversary - The Entrepreneurial State 2.0: Rethinking the State in the 21st century
The event celebrated the 5th anniversary of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and contribute to the vision of the Entrepreneurial State 2.0.
The evening included a keynote speech by Professor Mariana Mazzucato followed by a panel of leading voices, including Alicia Bárcena, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Shiva Dustdar, Director and Head of the European Investment Bank Institute, Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland and Rt Hon. Lord Willetts FRS, President of the Resolution Foundation. We will explore the new economic thinking, new models of public-private partnerships, institutional changes and entrepreneurial state leadership needed to tackle big challenges.
Global leaders, artists and policymakers will also contribute to the evening with a video on what the Entrepreneurial State means today.
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Digital public infrastructure for the public good
Governments have long been responsible for organising - and sometimes provisioning - public infrastructure - what is its responsibility in a digital world to do the same? What are the emerging risks around privacy, access and governance that this digital public infrastructure might pose - in both democratic and non-democratic regimes?
Watch the video of this panel discussion chaired by Dr David Eaves, Associate Professor in Digital Government at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, to learn how governments can help support the creation of digital public infrastructure.
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