This commemorative volume marks the 40th anniversary of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS), which was founded in 1986. It features personal reflections from prominent scholars, including past presidents, vice presidents, and Schumpeter Prize winners, who have influenced the development of Schumpeterian ideas in economics, management, and related fields.
Each chapter provides an insider's perspective on intellectual journeys, examining how Schumpeter's work has influenced research agendas and continues to inspire contemporary scholarship. Contributors discuss the development of Schumpeterian thinking, its impact on economic theory, and their visions for the discipline's future.
Edited by Uwe Cantner (ISS Secretary General), Bernd Ebersberger, and Patrick Llerena (ISS President) this volume serves as both a historical record and a forward-looking reflection on innovation, economic dynamics, and transformation. It will appeal to anyone interested in the enduring legacy of Schumpeter's ideas.
Chapter
1. For the 40 Year Anniversary: Voilà, a Book!.- Part I: Origins
and Foundations.
Chapter
2. Founding the International Joseph A. Schumpeter
Society: An Interview with Horst Hanusch.
Chapter
3. Schumpeters Research
Programme from the Perspective of Participant Observers Towards
Supra-Schumpeterian Economics.
Chapter
4. Men of deed vs bureaucratic
cripples Joseph A. Schumpeters experiences during his time in Vienna and
their influence on his later work.
Chapter
5. On Innovation-Driven Economic
Change as an Evolutionary Process.
Chapter
6. Twenty Laws in Schumpeterian
Economics.- Part II: Knowledge, Ideas, and the Micro-Foundations of
Innovation.
Chapter
7. Toward a Unified Transcendental Theory of Knowledge
Evolution: A Personal Account.
Chapter
8. Technological Paradigms,
Sailing-Ship Effect, Presumptive Anomaly: A Neo-Schumpeterian Conceptual
Trilogy.
Chapter
9. Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship and Ideation Processes.-
Part III: Innovative Enterprise and Sectoral Dynamics.
Chapter
10.
Schumpeterian Influences on the Theory of Innovative Enterprise.
Chapter
11.
Schumpeter, the Schumpeter Society and my Research on Innovation and Industry
Evolution.
Chapter
12. Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Analyzed as
Interlinked With Science & Technology, in a Schumpeterian Perspective.-
Chapter
13. Shakeout Speed and Technological Trajectory.
Chapter
14.
Revisiting Schumpeters Theory of Economic Development in the 21st Century.-
Part IV: Evolutionary Macroeconomics, Growth, and Finance.
Chapter
15.
Technological Change and the Creative Response: Inclusive Measures of
Growth.
Chapter
16. Reflections of an Evolutionary Macroeconomist.
Chapter
17. The complex attraction of disequilibrium.
Chapter
18. Finance and the
Real Economy out of Equilibrium.- Part V: Geographies of Innovation and
Global Change.
Chapter
19. Creative Destruction in Place: Evolutionary
Economic Geography, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence, and Schumpeterian
Dynamics.
Chapter
20. How Rapid Growth, and Secular Decline, Really Happen:
A Schumpeterian-Penrosian Journey.
Chapter
21. Global Economic Change: A
Schumpeterian Perspective.
Chapter
22. The Japanese Catch-up and the
Evolving ICT Innovation Ecosystem.
Chapter
23. Innovation Systems and
Catch-up by Latecomers: National, Sectoral, Regional and Corporate Innovation
Systems.- Part VI: Schumpeterian Political Economy and the Public Domain.-
Chapter
24. Schumpeters knowledge problem in the economy and in the voting
booth.
Chapter
25. Ideas for a Cognitive Approach to Political Behavior.-
Part VII: Metamorphosis of Capitalism: The Road Ahead.
Chapter
26.
Schumpeter in the Digital Economy.
Chapter
27. The J.A. Schumpeter Society
and the Schumpeterian Research Program A Retrospective Perspective.-
Chapter
28. 40 Years of the Schumpeter Society: Going Beyond Schumpeter?.-
Chapter
29. Metamorphosis of Capitalism: Chronicle of Schumpeterian Thinking.
Uwe Cantner is Professor of Economics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Economics/Microeconomics, and serves as Secretary General of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS). His research spans the economics of innovation, economic dynamics, evolutionary economics, and research and innovation policy, including policy evaluation. Currently, his work concentrates on economic transformation as a dynamic process driven by radically new technologies and accompanied by profound structural changes in both the economy and society.
Bernd Ebersberger is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. His work lies at the intersection of managerial economics and management science. Currently, his research examines innovation as the foundation of corporateand particularly sustainabletransformation, and as a cornerstone for shaping a desirable future.
Patrick Llerena is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Strasbourg, France, and currently serves as President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS). His research focuses on the economics of innovation and science, theories of the firm and organization, and science and innovation policy. At present, he is exploring creativity processes from an experimental perspective and developing an idea-driven theory of organizations and firms.
