The Green Entrepreneurial State

Mazzucato, Mariana

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2744602

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“…Mazzucato [184][185][186] argues, for example, that traditional approaches to innovation policy seriously underestimate the potential for the state to provide clear goals (direction) to a society's technological innovation journey through the systematic use of various policy instruments (an entrepreneurial state as she puts it). However, top-down policy-making may not be the most suitable approach to tackling wicked problems such as climate change [146,187,188].…”

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Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously

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Abstract:The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of technological innovation and economic change. We argue that improving the capacity of an IS framework for dealing with wicked problems and the normative complexity of sustainability requires a fundamental paradigm shift because in the current IS paradigm innovations are considered as per se desirable and in mostly technological terms. Therefore, we call for IS dedicated to transformations towards sustainability by opening up for systemic innovations beyond the technological dimension and by acknowledging that stakeholders have conflicting visions, interests, norms, and expectations with regard to sustainability goals. Taking the normative dimension of transformations towards sustainability seriously thus requires more explicit and integrative research on directionality, legitimacy, responsibility, and their interrelation in IS. The article concludes by proposing suggestions for future research based on IS-related approaches that can serve as building blocks for an IS framework capable of incorporating legitimate goal-orientation for transformative innovation by and for society.

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Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously

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“…Recent initiatives such as the US Presidential Power Africa programme recognise the role of the state in energy provision, but do so in ways that formulate the state only as the facilitator of international investment in both large-scale grid connected electricity or 'bottom of the pyramid' off-grid, poor consumers (USAID 2014). There remains a key role for the entrepreneurial state in ensuring sustainable and affordable energy access through long term, proactive and forward looking policy; a state which sets the direction of change, supports R&D, and redresses inequities through tax, regulation and industrial policy (Mazzucato 2015).…”

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Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique

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Little is still known about how climate policy initiatives intersect with national level development agendas; the winners, losers and potential trade-offs between different goals, and the political and institutional factors which enable or inhibit integration across different policy areas. This paper addresses this gap by applying a political economic analysis to case studies on low carbon energy in Kenya and carbon forestry in Mozambique. In examining the intersection of climate and development policy, we demonstrate the critical importance of politics, power and interests when climate-motivated initiatives hit wider and more complex national policy contexts, ultimately determining the prospects of achieving integrated climate policy and development goals in practice. We advance the following arguments: (1) the importance of understanding both the informal nature and historical embeddedness of decision making around key issue areas and resource sectors of relevance to climate change policy; (2) The need to understand and engage with the interests, power relations and policy networks that will shape the prospects of realising climate policy goals; (3) the ways in which common global drivers have very different impacts upon national level climate change debates once refracted through national levels institutions and policy processes, and (4) how climate change and development outcomes, and the associated trade-offs, may look very different depending on how it is framed, who frames it, and in which actor coalitions. IntroductionThe need for climate policy goals to be integrated with development goals in developing countries is undisputed (REF). A number of developing countries now have strategies for development and climate change, under the banners of 'climate resilient development', 'climate compatible development' or similar concepts, which sets out goals, envisaged synergies across mitigation, adaptation and development, and implementation strategies (REF). There is also a limited, but growing body of literature that examines how various climate policy initiatives are implemented, as well as potential synergies and trade-offs between the different goals (Stringer et al. 2014; Suckall et al. 2013; Shames et al. 2013).What is less clear, however, is whether and how climate change and development benefits will materialise in the real world, including the processes whereby decisions are made, by whom, and who wins and who loses from various initiatives and actions to promote integration. Despite an emerging recognition that 'politics matter' in adaptation and mitigation policy at national and subnational levels in developing countries (e.g., Dodman and Mitlin, 2014; Nightingale et al., this issue), there is as yet little analysis of how, when, why and for whom they matter in particular settings. As noted by Lockwood (2013), the academic and policy debates on climate policy goals, such as those associated with 'triple wins' (REF), have little meaning unless they are analysed in relation to the politica...

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“…In some countries, finance has been provided via innovation agencies like DARPA 4 and/or publicly funded company finance initiatives such as SBIR 5 in the USA. In countries such as Germany, China, and Brazil, and in the European Union, state investment banks have been providing patient finance for projects that aim to address 'great challenges' such as the current energy transition (Schapiro, 2012;Sanderson and Forsythe, 2013;Mazzucato and Penna, 2014;Mazzucato, 2015).…”

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