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Articles

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Video

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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Economics of Innovation

Focusing on understanding the context in which innovation is possible, and examining the role of innovation in growth and distribution.

Video

Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society

Featuring Simon Head and Marshall Auerback

Jun 6, 2014

What if innovation is not an unalloyed good for society? What if it simply adds to our current dystopian dysfunction?

Article

You Didn’t Build That: The Entrepreneurial State

Jul 8, 2013

Paper

Severing the Innovation-Inequality Link: Distribution Sensitive Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in Developed Nations

By Amos Zehavi and Dan Breznitz

Apr 2015

Paper

Who Invests in the High-Tech Knowledge Base?

By William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins

May 2014

Paper

Something for Everyone: Building Incentives for Innovation Ecosystems

Apr 2013

Grant

Greening Economic Growth: How can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?

Led by Paul Lanoie

Article

What the Steve Jobs Movie Won’t Tell You About Apple’s Success

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 23, 2015

Article

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

By Mariana Mazzucato

Jun 12, 2013

Paper

Toward a Supply-Side Theory of Financial Innovation

Apr 2013

Article

Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: new ideas for investment-led growth

By Mariana Mazzucato

Mar 19, 2015

“The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.” John M. Keynes, The End of Laissez Faire, 1926 (p. 44)

Video

Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation

Featuring James K. Galbraith and Marshall Auerback

Nov 7, 2014

How can the state manage its central role in the innovation economy if the state itself has become an instrument for facilitating corporate predation?

Conference Session

The Environment and Innovation: What Are The Real Costs?

Featuring Thomas Heller, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Amartya Sen, and Peter Victor

Apr 11, 2014 | 12:45—02:15

Article

Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

By William Lazonick

Oct 16, 2014

Video

Financing Innovation or Speculation, the Case of Cleveland

Featuring Margaret Levenstein

Jul 18, 2011

Video

The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value

Featuring William Lazonick and Marshall Auerback

Jan 22, 2014