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SPRU News
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Mariana Mazzucato (SPRU's new RM Phillips Professor) has just been awarded a Ford Foundation grant on 'Finance and The Entrepreneurial State', through their Reforming Global Finance initiative (2012-2014).
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She has also posted a few blogs on Huffington Post regarding the Eurozone crisis, done quite a few BBC interviews on the same subject, and helped draft a Plan B (against Osborne's Plan A). This and other information is on her website: www.marianamazzucato.com
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Lastly, the final event for Mariana's FINNOV project (finance innovation and growth) will be hosted in parliament. SPRU is one of the 7 centres involved.Click here for the draft agenda
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Adrian Smith has been teaching to Masters students in the Business and Economics Department of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires. The course reviewed the development of innovation studies and socio-technical analysis for sustainable development. It was also attended by a team from the Canadian International Development Research Centre, whose new programme on Innovation for Inclusive Development is interested in some of these themes. View the slides here.
