Rainer Kattel

Rainer Kattel is professor and deputy director at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London; and adjunct professor at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Taltech. He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. His recent books include The Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (edited with Erik Reinert and Jayati Gosh; Elgar, 2016), Financial Regulations in the European Union (edited with Jan Kregel and Mario Tonveronachi; Routledge, 2016), and Innovation Bureaucracy (with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo; Yale, forthcoming in 2022). In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy.