Mazzucato provides no real evidence the government is good at funding commercially viable innovation. She does. Just not here. The piece is called "Five minute

Mazzucato provides no real evidence the government is good at funding commercially viable innovation. She does. Just not here. The piece is called "Five minutes with..."; her arguments that government funds commercially viable innovation are easily found. I suppose the most obvious commercially viable innovation funded by governments (both directly and through various defence department funds) was computing.