Professor of the Economics of Innovation Mariana Mazzucato gives a 90-second lecture on the knowledge economy.
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the Open University, and as of November 2011 she will be joining the University of Sussex as the RM Professor of Science and Technology Policy.
She is Economics Director of the ESRC Centre for Socio-Economic Study of the Genomics (INNOGEN) and Co-ordinator of a European Commission FP7 funded project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV). She is also the author of the newly released DEMOS book on The Entrepreneurial State.
Her inaugural lecture in April 2009 on "Do the best firms always win? Puzzles around innovation and selection in economics" can be viewed on Stadium.