If you want to understand Silicon Valley, you need to unders... - Mariana Mazzucato

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

Mariana Mazzucato Science

Economist Researcher Italian-American Born 1968 (age 58)

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"The state is not there to pick winners and losers in the market. The state is there to create the conditions for innovation to happen."

"Public institutions have been crucial in funding the most radical, uncertain, and high-risk innovations."

"We need to recognize the entrepreneurial state as a creator of markets, not just a fixer of market failures."

"The private sector learns from public sector risk-taking."

"Science helps us understand the world."

"I've witnessed the birth of science, and it continues to amaze me."

"I'm something of a scientist myself."

"The fusion process is self-sustaining now!"