Uwe Cantner is primarily affiliated with the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, where he holds a professorship in economics, and is the Director of the Jena Graduate School of Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change. Since 2015 he is member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation - EFI) that advises the German Federal Government. In 2012 he was appointed President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, a society devoted to the field of evolutionary economics, and brought the 2014 ISS Conference to Jena. Cantner’s interests range from the Economics of Innovation and Change to Evolutionary Economics and Theories of Productivity. His most recent publications explore the connection between technology and innovation in the field of economics, as well as themes around social and economic change in an interdisciplinary context.
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