Mariana Mazzucato
Job title: Professor in the Economics of InnovationInstitution: The Open University
Email: m.mazzucato@open.ac.uk
Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Mariana_Mazzucato
Background information
Biography:
Mariana Mazzucato is a Professor of Economics at the Open University (UK). After receiving her PhD in 1999 from the New School University, she became Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Denver, and then joined the London Business School through a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She is currently the Coordinator of a 3 year FP7 project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV, 2009-2012, EC Contribution Euros 1.5 million) and is Economics Director of the ESRC Innogen centre. Since 2006 she has been a Visiting Professor at the Bocconi University (KITES centre). She is Deputy Director of the Open University's Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) inter-faculty research centre which she directed from 2004-2009.
Mariana Mazzucato is a Professor of Economics at the Open University (UK). After receiving her PhD in 1999 from the New School University, she became Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Denver, and then joined the London Business School through a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She is currently the Coordinator of a 3 year FP7 project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV, 2009-2012, EC Contribution Euros 1.5 million) and is Economics Director of the ESRC Innogen centre. Since 2006 she has been a Visiting Professor at the Bocconi University (KITES centre). She is Deputy Director of the Open University's Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) inter-faculty research centre which she directed from 2004-2009.
Interests:
Industry dynamics, relationship between financial markets and innovation, relationship between innovation and equitable growth.
Industry dynamics, relationship between financial markets and innovation, relationship between innovation and equitable growth.