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Furthermore, as argued by Rainer Kattel, who’s working with Mariana Mazzucato at the IIPP, it takes a certain organizational form to support innovation in the economy[407]. And based on my experiences as a senior civil servant, I highly doubt that the current form of the state allows it to impose what Carlota Perez calls a “direction for innovation

it is only through multiplication and trying many things out that our world finds a way for a few to succeed, and the smartest organisations are the ones that learn how to balance imagination and realism without quite so much waste.

democracy and participation; openness to lifelong learning and experimentation; equity and fairness – the worth of every individual; valid information and informed choice; enduring respect for the human side of enterprise.

It’s better to prefer incompleteness over completeness; capacious imagination instead of futures that are too specific or neat; and experimentation and exploration over visions and blueprints. I’m sceptical of overly coherent utopias or the belief that societies follow simple logics. Instead, I see the work of imagination (and the life of real soci

At present, there is a growing demand for moderately educated but not overly critical individuals as job fodder. In a neo-liberal society, the function of education is not so much to train individuals to a high level as to select youngsters and mould them to fit a certain profile that will guarantee the highest productivity. What they actually do i

Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,