Uwe Cantner

Prof. Uwe Cantner has been a member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation since December 2015. Since May 2019 he has been chair of the Commission.

He holds the chair of Economics/Microeconomics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he is also Vice President for Young Researchers and Diversity Management. Furthermore, he is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. As visiting professor, Uwe Cantner taught at the Collegio Carlo Albert in Turin, Italy, as well as at various universities in France.

He was and is head of several committees such as the Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, which he headed in 2013/2014. From 2005 to 2011, he was deputy head of the Governing Boards of the DIME EU Network of Excellence (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe). He was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Halle Institute of Economic Research (IWH) from 2012 to 2016.

Today, Professor Cantner is member of the scientific commission of the Mannheim Innovation Panel at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Director of the Jena Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change”, member of the Board of Directors of the “Schumpeter Centre for the Study of Social and Economic Change” and member of the scientific commission of the Einstein Foundation Berlin.

Uwe Cantner is editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics and co-editor of numerous other publications. He has published six books and more than hundred scientific essays in international journals to date.

He studied at the universities of Augsburg and Detroit, obtained his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and qualified as a professor at the University of Augsburg.

His research work focuses on innovation economics in the fields of entrepreneurship and start-up research, cluster, network and transfer research, industrial dynamics, radical and transformative change, science and higher education research, indicators, and research and innovation policy.