Mariana Mazzucato - The Mission-Led Australia Tour - Melbourne Lecture

Professor Mazzucato, who has gained global prominence through books like The Entrepreneurial State, Mission Economy and – most recently – The Big Con, will provide an address on industrial development and innovation in a less secure, more geopolitically fraught, post-Covid global environment.

Like much of the rest of the world, Australia is rethinking its approach to industrial policy in the wake of Covid-induced supply chain shocks, energy transition issues and the growing geostrategic competition.

Professor Mazzucato’s Australian speaking tour arrives at a historically significant moment for the nation.

In fact, Australia’s industrial policy thinking has shifted in a way not seen in 40 years. Issues of sovereign capability, sovereign supply chains, friend-shoring, strategic alliances across critical technologies – these are all mainstream discussions today.

Professor Mazzucato will be available for a book signing following the lecture.

DETAILS
Thursday, 14 March 2024
7:00pm AEDT
B117 Theatre, Basement Level, Glyn Davis Building, Parkville Campus, University of Melbourne, Grattan Street

Confirmed Speakers

• Grant Dooley, CEO, Breakthrough Victoria
• Professor Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global, Culture and Engagement, The University of Melbourne
• Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the University College London Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, and author
• Professor Dan Hill, Director, Melbourne School of Design, formerly Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose