The Entrepreneurial State

De: Mariana Mazzucato

Narrado por: Amy Finegan

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan.

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk-taker of all?

'A brilliant book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times

'One of the most incisive economic books in years' Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books

'Mazzucato is right to argue that the state has played a central role in producing game-changing breakthroughs' Economist

©2018 Mariana Mazzucato (P)2018 Penguin Audio

eye opening

This book portraits how big companies make big wins from state investment and tax payers money. From Google to Apple and even Tesla, showing that the myth of the lonely entrepreneur is just that, a myth. Really eye opening supporting each claim with facts and data

Informative

It is basically a dissertation so be prepared for references and fairly academic writing. Very informative and thought provoking.

Opened my eyes about the role of the State on R&D

Great for understanding how wrong are those States that insist on being outside the innovation challenges, by granting this role to the private initiative, which will obviously pick only the low hanging fruits.

Interesting and worth a listen

The book is worth a listening too. Easy to follow, and relevant. I would've given it 4 stars if content had been more varied, as it was just a little bit too reiterative sometimes.

Too much reading of references

The meat of the content is good, however the narrator kept reading the source of references after almost every sentences, that I keep losing track on what she was talking about.