TED Talks
Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator
TV-PG
2013 • E205 Oct 27, 2013 15mWhy doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it. In an energetic talk, she shows how the state — which many see as a slow, hunkering behemoth — is really one of our most exciting risk-takers and market-shapers.