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The Entrepreneurial State
by Mariana Mazzucato
The iPhone's key technologies came from public research; the state is a risk-taker, not just a fixer of market failures. Influential and contested.
Read it if…
you want the case for public investment in innovation.
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Skip it if…
you want the market-only story.
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Three things you will actually use
- Public money seeded the tech.
- Risk and reward should align.
- Innovation is collective.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the iPhone.
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