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Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health For All, and the author, most recently, of “Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism” (Penguin Books,

Right, and to return to the little phrase i used at the beginning about earthly reality perhaps clashing with some of your more idealistic visions, earthly reality today is that across the world, in democracies and maybe in the not—so—democratic countries, what we see are rising, alarming levels of mistrust in government, in officialdom, in the people who rule over our lives. there is deep scepticism. covid perhaps has brought that out once again. trust and faith are central to your notion o...

To your notion of how a mission economy would work. and i would put it to you there is a desperate lack of trust and faith in governance. absolutely, but thats why the book doesnt stop at the notion of moonshot submissions, it then looks at the metrics. like, whats the accountability that should be in place to make sure our governments and different types of public institutions are actually working for people? so look at the bbc, where were sitting today. inside the bbc is a metric and a concept...

The bbc in what it does. we dont have equivalent metrics of public value or public purpose in many public organisations. so the bigger question, and this is why ive set up a whole institute at university college about this, if public purpose is the goal, if we have missions that are societal in nature, you know, around the sustainable development goals, what are the metrics we need that go beyond cost—benefit analysis, net—present value, that actually capture these dynamic spill—overs acro...

Economy would work. and i would put it to you there is a desperate lack of trust and faith in governance. absolutely, but that�*s why the book doesn�*t stop at the notion of moonshot submissions, it then looks at the metrics. like, what�*s the accountability that should be in place to make sure our governments and different types of public institutions are actually working for people? so look at the bbc, where we�*re sitting today. inside the bbc is a metric and a concept of public value...

Reality perhaps clashing with some of your more idealistic visions, earthly reality today is that across the world, in democracies and maybe in the not—so—democratic countries, what we see are rising, alarming levels of mistrust in government, in officialdom, in the people who rule over our lives. there is deep scepticism. covid perhaps has brought that out once again. trust and faith are central to your notion of how a mission economy would work. and i would put it to you there is a despera...

LONDON  —  Although US President Joe Biden promised to lead with “science and truth”, his administration’s efforts to advance science have fallen short. Biden only recently named a commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and he has yet to fill many other key science-policy positions, including the office of the White House Science Adviser and the director of the

The merger of EQT and Baring Private Equity Asia brings together two of the best firms in the private business.

EQT AB has reached an agreement to acquire Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA), a leading private markets investment firm in Asia with €17.7bn of assets under management. ...

STOCKHOLM, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT AB (publ) ("EQT") has reached an agreement to acquire Baring Private Equity Asia ("BPEA") (the "Transaction"), a leading private markets investment