Rainer Kattel is a professor and deputy director at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. His research interests also include public sector innovation, digital transformation in the public sector and financialisation. His recent books include The Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (edited with Erik Reinert and Jayati Gosh; Elgar, 2016) and How to make an Entrepreneurial State. Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy (with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo; Yale, 2022), the latter is the 2023 winner of George R. Terry Book Award by the Academy of Management. In 2013, he received Estonia’s National Science Award for his work on innovation policy.