This event took place on 29 February 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show how our economies' reliance on consultancy firms stunts innovation and impedes collective action around pandemics or climate breakdown. They argue brilliantly for collective intelligence within all organizations and communities, and for innovation around the common good.
Their vital and timely investigation shows how the consulting industry has made its way to the heart of our economies and governments - and what to do about it. Expect a whirlwind of provocative questions, myth-debunking and positive solutions, in a wide-ranging discussion that you can’t afford not to join!
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. As well as The Entrepreneurial State, she is the author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018), and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021). She authored the report on Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union, and authored a report with the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where she researches the political economy of outsourcing. She has written on consulting and other subjects for publications including the Guardian, OpenDemocracy and the Independent. Her academic research has been published by New Political Economy and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
