When the money moves, we should watch the politics. Institutional change and money, it turns out, do not (need to) arrive at the same time. Economist, Mariana Mazzucato has long argued that to understand a social innovation ecosystem, you have to understand what each actor brings to it, the public sector included, not as a passive funder but as a market shaper. I kept thinking about that framing during one of the most revealing talks of the conference, because it turns the usual question inside out. If the state is an active player rather than a wallet, then when its money moves, the
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