The Essential Podcast, Episode 43 : Silicon Valley is Not Normal - What Innovation Looks Like in the Real World

About this Episode

Dan Breznitz, Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University of Toronto, joins the Essential Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on what innovation is and what it isn’t, how regions end up chasing the false model of Silicon Valley, and how innovation can be threatened by financialization and intellectual property rights.

The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets – macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, energy transition, and global trade – in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

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Show Notes

• Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He is is the author of Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World.