The Smart State - VPRO documentary - 2015

We think new technology is developed by hip companies like Google and Apple. But is this true? VPRO Backlight explores the innovation climate in Europe, to find out what role governments and the private sector play in this. Who finances the development, and who profits from it? We have gotten used to seeing new technology as something devised by smart, trendy techies at companies like Apple or Google. Italian American economist Mariana Mazzucato delved into the origin of new technology, and found out that governments have more influence than we think.
One question is what future governments can still contribute to technological development if they only have the costs, not the benefits. A company like Apple makes a profit with technology co-developed by governments, but like so many other big companies, they barely pay taxes. VPRO Backlight pays a visit to aircraft manufacturer Airbus, which is teaming up with the European Space Agency for the development of 3D printing. But we also go to the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, where so-called orphan drugs are developed: medicines for rare diseases that would be too costly for companies to develop without additional incentive measures. And finally, in Denmark the government does have an important role in innovation as a direct venture investor in new technology.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2015.
© VPRO Backlight October 2015
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Credits:
Interviewer: Chris Kijne
Director: Martijn Kieft
Research: Chris Vijn, William de Bruijn
Producers: Jeroen Beumer, Helen Goossens
Commissioning editors: Marije Meerman, Doke Romeijn
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.

[@qdav5]

Nice documentary! As someone who has spent a large part of my career in government labs and academia, I think it's nice to see the true developers of today's major technological advancements finally getting some credit for their work. I know of many $1+ billion tech companies that were built directly and entirely upon the results of government-sponsored projects. In most of these cases, the individuals who actually developed the technology realized little or no financial benefit. I think it is great that there is a path for state-sponsored research to find its way into to the public domain; I only wish there were a better way of ensuring that the original developers of these technologies benefited from their contributions.

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too bad it died :.(

[@vishnuseesahai4611]

It's challenging to develop innovative R&D in the private sector, even at companies like Google and Apple. There is a constant emphasis on short term monetization of R&D. However, great innovations are often years ahead of specific applications. Thus, it seems of primary concern that public research funding be present in nations throughout the globe. I think a great example of this is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The US was formerly the world leader in quantum research due to the availability of funding for particle accelerator technologies. However, when that funding evaporated the LHC moved to the Franco-Swiss border thereby demoting the US's status in this kind of research. Keep in mind that the LHC is arguably the most complex machine ever built by mankind, and the plethora of different engineering innovations required to build it will surely benefit mankind at large as entrepreneurs find every applications for these technologies.

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[@thestonemaster81]

To say the state that stole the money from people. and wanted to do bad things with it (war) and someone else takes the ideas and makes it usable and offers the product to the people who voluntary give their money for that product. How can you say the government is the great hero here? That like saying all the waste that all governments do is a good thing?

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I couldn't find the Mutso glass Martin Motzfeld is referring to around 30: 24 min. Somebody was able to find the webpage of the company? Thanks in advance.

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[@aifan6148]

Good points! And many innovations during war time, undeniably.

[@crashroots]

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[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Just imagine, for a moment, it was decided decades ago that going forward innovation, technology, and the betterment of human life was put first instead of profits... But instead it was decided that planned obsolescence was to be integrated into our economy and that the U.S. and U.S. Americans would become the "Consumer Nation"... What we might have been... what a shame.

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[@austinroche1801]

At 20:19 some incorrect facts were stated. The Bayh-Dole Act does not allow the government to march-in and cap the prices of drugs. One of 4 specific criteria must be met before the government can march-in, and price is not mentioned in any of those criteria. See the letter from NIH director Francis Collins in response to the Xtandi march-in petition. Also see the response letters to the two petitions about Norvir.

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Because the government is not smart. Du30 still wants coal in the 21st century. He's like Trump who's stuck in the 80's-90's

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[@vladanlausevic1733]

The problem with governments funding and subsidizing companies is not in companies but in governments and citizens who vote for such governments

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[@SophyaAgain]

Great Danish. Meanwhile in Bazil . . . I got depressed . . .

[@PotatoMASHjack]

Insert the word CRONY in front of every mention of capitalism...

[@joshuaoha]

+PepperChopJohn Yeah. I read Ayn Rand too. If we just had no government, everything would be wonderful!

[@PotatoMASHjack]

+joshuaoha not sure if you are sarcastic or not? But where do i say anything about rand? Having no government and that the world would be perfect without it? I just don't like it when smart people don't know the distinction between capitalism and the system that we now have.

[@magsdechert4647]

+PepperChopJohn The point is this no-true scotsman distinction of capialism is almost always made by anarcho-capitalists or libertarian conservatives. Basically, saying the government is the root of crony capitalism, implies that without it the free market would be perfect, leaving out the multitude of things that arise in the free market without any external forces (monopolies, bad working conditions, pollution of the environment, supression of information for consumers in cases of GMO or ingredients, etc.) and that's not even touching on the criticisms that Marx put forward about class struggle. Also crony-capitalism doesn't apply here, because there was no direct suppression of the robot-arms guy or the drug researcher from non-existent competitors, that's just how a non-rational market is, often random and often unjust. It comes down to the information that the consumer has, but normally a consumer is very instinct-oriented, he couldn't possibly be able to rationally decide whether the influence that buying an organic apple has on the environment is worth more than the difference in price for a normal one.

[@DRourk]

+PepperChopJohn 'crony capitalism' is just the 'politically correct' (cultural Marxist) Orwellian term for fascism. Call it what it is.

[@rjbz554]

sounds like creeping facism...

[@vladanlausevic1733]

And what are the results of the Danish Growth Fund? Partly as in Sweden, the rise of "benefit entrepreneurs"

[@vladanlausevic1733]

But why should taxpayers pay for research in the first place?

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[@Newtube_Channel]

Yeah gov't are an easy picking to fund risks. Corps need to give much more back when they do succeed.

[@vladanlausevic1733]

But not even Mazzucat's proposal can create more jobs in general

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[@psikeyhackr6914]

The measure of economic growth is based on ignoring the Demand Side Depreciation that should be subtracted. There were One Billion cars in 2010. What did the world lose on Depreciation of all of those cars? If a car is manufactured in Germany and sold in Liberia and used there for 15 years, where did it get added to GDP and where did the depreciation get subtracted?

[@joebazooks]

do liberia and germany even calculate GDP in the same manner?

[@psikeyhackr6914]

tonyfalca Do the Laws of Physics work the same all over the planet and make machines wear out?

[@joebazooks]

psikeyhackr i fail to see your point...

[@psikeyhackr6914]

tonyfalca Do you think cars wear out at different rates because they are in different countries? Does it occur to you that a lot of GDP is useless work because stuff is made to fall apart? It is just consumer slavery. What difference does it make which country.

[@joebazooks]

psikeyhackr i'm just trying to understand what you meant, yet you seem to be all over the place. do you mind expounding upon your initial comment and providing more context?

[@woxnerw]

Why IS IT that the People who invents and Designs "STUFF" doesn't get any credit for their Mental Labor? Bell Labs should get NO CREDIT for the CCD devise.. I stand corrected "BUT" the Early Development was "Imagined" by a Canadian who lived in Northern Nova Scotia. EDIT this Documentary at around 4:00 Minutes to include this Person's Name.. Bell Labs, didn't INVENT this Devise.. Why IS IT that People who Live close to the 45th Parallel in the Northern Hemisphere are the Cleverest People in the World? GET IT RIGHT.. eh??

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China's green economy?

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