Economist
Mariana Mazzucato is an Italian American economist and professor at University College London, known for her work on the role of the public sector in driving innovation. She is the author of The Entrepreneurial State and The Value of Everything, and founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
by Mariana Mazzucato
Mazzucato challenges the lone-entrepreneur myth by showing the state funded the riskiest innovations behind the iPhone, internet, and biotech. Public investment deserves credit and returns.
The books Mariana Mazzucato references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
Who Mariana draws from, and who draws from Mariana — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.