Uwe Cantner

Uwe Cantner

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Appointments

  • Full Professor of Economics at the FSU Jena
  • Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark/Odense
  • Vice President for Young Researchers and Diversity Management at FSU Jena
  • Chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation  (EFI: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation) at the Federal German Government
  • Spokesman of the DFG-GRK 1411 – The Economics of Innovative Change

Contact

Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3, Room 5.23
D-07743 Jena

fon: +49 (0) 3641 9 43200
fax: +49 (0) 3641 9 43202
uwe.cantner@uni-jena.de

Consultation hours: By appointment (please contact the office in advance)

Main fields of interest

  • Most Recent Refereed Publications

    Cantner U., Industrial Policy and Technological Sovereignty, in: Tagliapietra, S., R. Veugelers (eds), BRUEGEL BLUEPRINT SERIES: SPARKING EUROPE’S NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, A policy for net zero growth and resilience, 2023, 71-88

    Bertschek, I., G. Bünstorf, U. Cantner, C. Häussler, T. Requate, F. Welter, Mit welchen Governance-Strukturen lässt sich die Agilität der missionsorientierten F&I-Politik steigern?, EFI-Policy Brief Nr. 1-2023, Berlin, 2023

    Mundt, P., I. Savin, U., Cantner, H. Inoue, S. Vannuccini, Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2023, dtad022, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad022

    Cantner, U., M. Kalthaus, I. Yarullina, Outcomes of science-industry collaboration: factors and interdependencies. J Technol Transf (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-09999-5

    Basilico, S., U. Cantner, H. Graf, Policy Influence in the Knowledge Space: a Regional Application, Journal of Technology Transfer 48(2), 2023, 591-622, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-022-09925-1

    Buratti, M., Cantner, U., Cunningham, J.A., Lehmann, E.E. and Menter, M. (2022), The dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: an empirical investigation. R&D Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12565

    Basit, A., Cantner, U., Kuhn, T., The role of market competition for knowledge competencies, R&D and innovation: an empirical analysis for German firms, European Journal of Management Studies 27(29, 2022, 229-253

    Cantner, U., H. Dauchert, K. Hölzle, C.Stolz, Challenges on the digitalization of the universities in the European Higher Education Area -The case of Germany, in: B. Broucker, R. Pritchard, C. Milsom and R. Krempkow (eds), Transformation Fast and Slow Digitalisation, Quality and Trust in Higher Education, Brill: Leiden/boston, 2022, 78-103

    Riaz, M., J.C. Correia Leitão, U. Cantner, Measuring the efficiency of an entrepreneurial ecosystem at municipality level: Does institutional transparency play a moderating role? Eurasian Business Review 12(1), 2022, 151-176, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-021-0019-w

    Cantner, U., T. Grebel, Entrepreneurship and industrial organisation, in: Kurz, H.D, M. Schütz, R. Strohmaier and S. S. Zilian (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies. Available from: VitalSource Bookshelf, Taylor & Francis, 2022, 101-120

    Gerstlberger, W., A. Pedrosa, U. Cantner, T. Kesting, Enhancing Innovation Activities in the Transition Process towards Renewable Energy Municipalities, Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development 16(2), 2022, 224-43

    Malerba, F., Cantner, U. & Breschi, S. Introduction to the special issue in honor of Luigi Orsenigo, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31(5), 2021, 1389-1403

    Alhusen, H., T. Bennat, K. Bizer, U. Cantner, E. Horstmann, M. Kalthaus, T. Proeger, R. Sternberg, S. Töpfer, A New Measurement Conception for the 'Doing-Using-Interacting' Mode of Innovation, Research Policy 50(4), 2021, 104214

    Krücken, G., G. Bünstorf, U. Cantner, J. Frost, T. Grebel, J. Hamann, H. Hottenrott, A. Kosmützky, F. Meier, U. Schimank, K. Serrano Velarde, Multipler Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven und wissenschaftspolitische Implikationen, Das Hochschulwesen 03, 2021, 90-95

    Cantner U., Neue Missionsorientierte Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik: Rationale und Ansätze, in: J. Lange und D. Fornahl, Missionsorientierte Innovationspolitik -Richtungsweisende Ansätze für Regionalentwicklung, Klimaschutz, Bioökonomie und Gesundheit, Loccumer rotokoll 91/220, Rehburg-Loccum, 2021

    Cantner, U., S. Vannuccini, Pervasive Technologies and Industrial Linkages: Modeling Acquired Purposes, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 56(March), 2021, 386-399

    Cantner, U., J.A. Cunningham , E. E. Lehmann  & M. Menter , Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Dynamic Lifecycle Model, Small Business Economics, Small Business Economics, 57(1), 2021, 407-423, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00316-0

    Böhringer, C., J. Costard, U. Cantner, L. Kramkowski, C. Gatzend, S.Pietsch, Innovation for the German energy transition - Insights from an expert survey,  Energy Policy 144 (September 2020), 2020, 111611, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111611

    Cantner, U., D. Fornahl, S. Kuhlmann (Hrsg.), Staat und Innovation: Neu denken und handeln, Grünbuch zur Herrenhäuser Konferenz „The New Role of the State for the Emergence and Diffusion of Innovation“, Bremen, Jena, Twente, 2020

    Riaz, M.F., U. Cantner, Revisiting the relationship between corruption and innovation in developing and emerging economies, Crime, Law and Social Change, 73(4), 2020, 395–416, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-019-09867-0

    Ali, M., U. Cantner, Economic Diversification, Human Development and Economic Growth, Eurasian Economic Review 10(2), 2020, 211–235

    Cantner U., W. Gerstlberger and Ipsita Roy, Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms, International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 20(3/4), 2020, 269-294

     

  • Curriculum vitae
    • 1980-1985
      University of Augsburg: Business Administration/Economics (degree: Dipl.oec.)
    • 1983-1984
      Wayne-State University, Detroit, MI, USA: Economics (degree: MA)
    • 1985-1990
      Assistant at the Chair of Professor Dr. Horst Hanusch, Department of Economics, University of Augsburg
    • 1990
      PhD at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Professor Dr. Franz Gehrels, Institute for International Economics, topic: "Technischer Fortschritt, neue Güter und internationaler Handel" (Technical Progress, New Goods and International Trade) (degree: Dr.oec.publ.)
    • 1990-1996
      Assistant at the Chair of Professor Dr. Horst Hanusch, Department of Economics, University of Augsburg
    • 1996
      Habilitation in Economics, topic "Heterogenität und technologische Spillovers - Grundelemente einer ökonomischen Theorie des technologischen Fortschritts" (Heterogeneity and Technological Progress -basic elements of an economic theory of technological progress) (degree: Dr.rer.pol.habil.)
    • 1996-1997
      Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Augsburg
    • 1997-1998
      Temporary Professorship at the Department of Economics, University of Augsburg
    • 1998
      Guest Professor at Université du Toulon et du Var
    • 1998, 1999, 2000
      Guest Professor at Université de Rennes
    • 04/2000-11/2000
      Temporary Professorship at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    • since 12/2000
      Professor of Economics, Chair for Microeconomics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    • since 07/2010
      Professor of Economics (II) at the University of Southern Denmark/Odense
    • 2013
      Guest Professor at the University of Turin
    • 2013
      Guest Professor at the Telecom Ecole de Management, Paris
    • 2012-2014
      President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
    • 2014
      Guest Professor at the Telecom Ecole de Management, Paris
    • since 10/2014
      Vice President for Young Researchers and Diversity Management of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
    • 2015
      Guest Professor at the Université des Nice/Sophia Antipolis, Nice
    • 2015
      Guest Professor at the Telecom Ecole de Management, Paris
    • since 2022
      Secretary General of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
  • Scientific Appointments
    • since 1997
      Member of the faculty of the European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics (ESSID)
    • 1998-2008
      General Editor of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS)
    • 2000
      Member of the Jury of the Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize 2000
    • since 2001
      Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics (JEE)
    • 2002
      Member of the Jury of the Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize 2002
    • 2005-2012
      Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the DIME EU-Network of Excellence
    • 2006-2008 Member of the Council of the ZEW Innovationpanel
    • since 7/2006
      Spokesman DFG-RTG 1411 "The Economics of Innovative Change"
    • since 10/2006
      Member of the Advisory Board of the Mannheim Innovationpanel of the ZEW (MIP)
    • since 12/2007
      Director Jena Graduate School "Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change"
    • 2008-2009
      Chairman of the Evolutionary Economics Chapter of the German Economic Association
    • 2012-2016
      Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IWH in Halle/Saale
    • 2010-2019
      Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mannheim Innovation Panel at the ZEW Mannheim
    • 2010
      Member of the Jury of the Joseph A. Schumpeter-Prize 2010
    • since 2010
      Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Economic Analysis (JEA)
    • 2012-2014
      President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
    • since 2015
      Member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation  (EFI: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation) at the Federal German Government
    • since 2019
      Chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation  (EFI: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation) at the Federal German Government
    • since 2019
      Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Eurasian Business Review