Ph.D. Rainer KATTEL Visiting Professor, IIPP - Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL - University College London; Research Professor, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn

	Rainer Kattel is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
	Rainer is a research professor at Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
	He has studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and University of Marburg, Germany, in philosophy, political philosophy, classics and public administration.
	He led Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance for 10 years, building it into one of the leading innovation and governance schools in the region.
	Professor Kattel has also served on various public policy commissions, including the Estonian Research Council and European Science Foundation. He has worked as an expert for the OECD, UNDP and the European Commission. Currently, he leads the Estonian Government’s Gender Equality Council, and is a member of governing boards at Tallinn University of Technology and Estonian Academy of Arts.

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)
Innovation Bureaucracy (with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo; Yale, forthcoming in 2017)
A special section on mission-oriented innovation policy in Industrial and Corporate Change (edited with Mariana Mazzucato, forthcoming in 2018).

In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy.

18: Mission-oriented innovation policy in practice