Mariana Mazzucato

"If we believe in progress, we have to believe in public institutions."

"Risk-taking is only celebrated when it's done in the private sector with public money."

"The state is the only institution that can make the really big, transformative bets."

"We need to reclaim the language of public value creation from those who have monopolized it."

"Every technology that changed the world came from somewhere other than a garage."

"The crisis we face is not a crisis of innovation; it's a crisis of public imagination."

"We've forgotten that public institutions were built to do the things that markets wouldn't do."

"If you want to understand wealth creation, you have to understand public sector contribution to that wealth."

"The entrepreneurial state creates the conditions under which entrepreneurship can flourish."

"We celebrate risk-taking in Silicon Valley while punishing it in the public sector."

"Innovation is not a private affair; it's a collective endeavor that requires public investment."

"The myth of the self-made entrepreneur is just that—a myth."

"Public institutions need autonomy to innovate effectively."

"If we want solutions to the world's biggest problems, we need to trust public institutions to solve them."

"The best way to understand innovation is to follow the money back to its source."

"Austerity is a choice, not a necessity, and it's a choice that diminishes our collective future."

"We need to stop thinking of the public sector as a burden and start thinking of it as an investment."

"The state has always been the lead risk-taker in innovation ecosystems."

"If public institutions didn't exist, we would have to invent them—because markets alone can't create the future."

"Innovation requires courage, and only public institutions have the structural courage to pursue truly transformative change."

"The problem with how we talk about innovation is that we've severed it from its political and economic context."

"Public value creation is not less important than private wealth creation—it's foundational to it."

"We've created an economy where public goods are underfunded and public workers are undervalued."

"The future belongs to those who can think long-term, and only public institutions are structurally capable of that."

"If you want to understand Silicon Valley, you need to understand DARPA, NIH, and the NSF."

"Risk-taking is celebrated or condemned depending on who is doing it and whose money is at stake."

"The entrepreneurial state is not a new concept; it's how capitalism has always worked."

"We need to defend public institutions not as a matter of ideology but as a matter of practicality."

"Innovation ecosystems don't emerge from nowhere; they emerge from public investment."

"The greatest innovations of the past century came from public sector vision and commitment."