On February 22nd, 2016, the Hans-und-Traute-Matthöfer-Stiftung within the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung awarded the Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik �Wirtschaft.Weiter.Denken.� 2016. Award winner is Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at the University of Sussex, with her book �The Entrepreneurial State � Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths�. The speeches held during the award ceremony by Kurt Beck, Hubertus Heil, Brigitte Preissl and Mariana Mazzucato are published in the present Festschrift.