The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Mariana Mazzucato presents The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
- When
- Mon Mar 24, 2014
- Where
- SF Jazz Center
- Time
- 7:30 pm-9:00pm
- Cost
- $15
- Tags
- Lectures, Education, Technology
Description
Where do the boldest innovations, with the deepest consequences for society, come from?Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and libertarians claim that the private sector leads the way always, and government at best follows by decades and at worst impedes the process with bureaucratic regulations.
Mariana Mazzucato proves otherwise. Many of the most profound innovations—from the Internet and GPS to nanotech and biotech —had their origin in government programs developed specifically to explore innovations that might eventually attract private sector interest. Governments can take on multi-decade, slow-payoff, ambitious projects where most businesses cannot. The process works pretty well now. How can it work better?
Mazzucato is a professor of the Economics of Innovation at Sussex University and author of “The Entrepreneurial State: debunking private vs. public sector myths.”
Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/
Monday March 24, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/mar/24/entrepreneurial-state-debunking-private-vs-public-sector-myths/
Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/
Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/
SFJAZZ Center at
201 Franklin St.
http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions
There will be a reception on the Mezzanine following the Seminar
Long Now Seminar Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
[email protected]
415.561.6582 x1
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