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Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues

Laplane, A; Mazzucato, M; (2020) Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues. Research Policy: X , 2 , Article 100008. 10.1016/j.repolx.2020.100008. Green open access

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Abstract

We develop a framework for analyzing the role of public agencies in making high-risk investments along the innovation chain and ask how both the risks of innovation and the rewards can be shared between public and private actors. We build on a new approach to innovation policy, which we call market co-creating and shaping, in which the state is not only fixing markets but actively co-creating them. We also look at the legal institutions that determine (and are determined by) the relationship between public and private actors. Policy measures to institutionalize rewards in a way that promote more equitable public–private partnerships can be understood as attempts to mediate asymmetric power relations, tensions and conflicting views among multiple stakeholders, as well as building a shared notion of the value and legitimacy of the role of the state. We conclude by outlining analytical and policy implications and identifying avenues for future research.

Type: Article
Title: Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.repolx.2020.100008
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repolx.2020.100008
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/).
Keywords: Innovation policy, Risk capital, Entrepreneurial state, Portfolio, public–private partnerships, Legal institutions
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100380
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