| Eerder schreef e-ambtenaar al over het boek The Entrepreneurial State van Mariana Mazzucato en de boodschap daarin dat bijvoorbeeld Apple, Facebook en Google niet zonder overheidsinnovaties hadden bestaan (zie deze blog). Het boek is een resultaat van onderzoek in opdracht van de Britse denktank DEMOS en de publicatie daarvan is GRATIS op hun website verkrijgbaar. |  |
KERNBOODSCHAP VAN DE PUBLICATIE
Voor een aantal politieke stromingen is een minimale overheid die zich verre houdt van ondernemingen een ideaalbeeld. Maar uit The Entrepreneurial State blijkt dat juist voor het innovatieve economische beleid een actieve staat randvoorwaarde is voor succes. Zoals de directeur van DEMOS het zegt: “[W]e say we want a more entrepreneurial economy. That doesn’t necessarily require the state to withdraw, but to lead.”
DE PUBLICATIE IN ENKELE CITATEN
“Across the globe we are hearing that the state has to be cut back in order to foster a post-crisis recovery, unleashing the power of entrepreneurship and innovation in the private sector. This feeds a perceived contrast that is repeatedly drawn by the media, business and libertarian politicians of a dynamic, innovative, competitive private sector versus a sluggish, bureaucratic, inertial, ‘meddling’ public sector.” (p.1)
“Instead it is a case for a targeted, proactive, entrepreneurial state, able to take risks, creating a highly networked system of actors harnessing the best of the private sector for the national good over a medium-to long-term horizon. It is the state as catalyst, and lead investor, sparking the initial reaction in a network that will then cause knowledge to spread. The state as creator of the knowledge economy.” (p. 19-20)
“The public sector has indeed fulfilled an important role in undertaking the most risky research, even when that research was not ‘basic’. Private sector examples are provided from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries where it has been the state, not the private sector, that has created economic dynamism.” (p. 21)
“Myth-busting 3: Venture capital is not so risk-loving” (p. 39)
“In finance, it is commonly accepted that there is a relationship between risk and return. However, in the innovation game, this has not been the case. Risk-taking has been a collective endeavour while the returns have been much less collectively distributed. Often, the only return that the state gets for its risky investments are the indirect benefits of higher tax receipts that result from the growth that is generated by those investments. Is that enough?” (p.109)
“The assumption that the public sector can at best incentivise private sector led innovation (through subsidies, tax reductions, carbon pricing, green investment banks and so on) — a claim being propagated heavily in the UK, especially but not only in the face of the recent crisis and ensuing deficits — fails to account for the many examples in which the leading entrepreneurial force came from the state rather than from the private sector.” (p. 115)
Voor een aantal politieke stromingen is een minimale overheid die zich verre houdt van ondernemingen een ideaalbeeld. Maar uit The Entrepreneurial State blijkt dat juist voor het innovatieve economische beleid een actieve staat randvoorwaarde is voor succes. Zoals de directeur van DEMOS het zegt: “[W]e say we want a more entrepreneurial economy. That doesn’t necessarily require the state to withdraw, but to lead.”
DE PUBLICATIE IN ENKELE CITATEN
“Across the globe we are hearing that the state has to be cut back in order to foster a post-crisis recovery, unleashing the power of entrepreneurship and innovation in the private sector. This feeds a perceived contrast that is repeatedly drawn by the media, business and libertarian politicians of a dynamic, innovative, competitive private sector versus a sluggish, bureaucratic, inertial, ‘meddling’ public sector.” (p.1)
“Instead it is a case for a targeted, proactive, entrepreneurial state, able to take risks, creating a highly networked system of actors harnessing the best of the private sector for the national good over a medium-to long-term horizon. It is the state as catalyst, and lead investor, sparking the initial reaction in a network that will then cause knowledge to spread. The state as creator of the knowledge economy.” (p. 19-20)
“The public sector has indeed fulfilled an important role in undertaking the most risky research, even when that research was not ‘basic’. Private sector examples are provided from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries where it has been the state, not the private sector, that has created economic dynamism.” (p. 21)
“Myth-busting 3: Venture capital is not so risk-loving” (p. 39)
“In finance, it is commonly accepted that there is a relationship between risk and return. However, in the innovation game, this has not been the case. Risk-taking has been a collective endeavour while the returns have been much less collectively distributed. Often, the only return that the state gets for its risky investments are the indirect benefits of higher tax receipts that result from the growth that is generated by those investments. Is that enough?” (p.109)
“The assumption that the public sector can at best incentivise private sector led innovation (through subsidies, tax reductions, carbon pricing, green investment banks and so on) — a claim being propagated heavily in the UK, especially but not only in the face of the recent crisis and ensuing deficits — fails to account for the many examples in which the leading entrepreneurial force came from the state rather than from the private sector.” (p. 115)
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