Uwe Cantner

Uwe Cantner (born August 2, 1960) is a German economist. Since 2000 he has been full professor of Economics at the University of Jena, and heads the chair of Economics and Microeconomics. Economics of innovation, evolutionary economics, industrial economics, and productivity and efficiency measurement are his major fields of research. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Economics (part-time) at the University of Southern Denmark.

On 15 October 2014 he became the new vice-president for young researchers and diversity management at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Cantner earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Wayne State University in 1984 and a Diplom from the University of Augsburg in 1985. After that he went for his Phd which he received in 1990 from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with the thesis "Product and Process Innovation in International Trade". In 1996 he successfully habilitated at the University of Augsburg on the topic "Heterogeneity and Spillovers - Basic Elements of a Theory of Technological Change".

He is the director of The Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change, and the spokesman of DFG Graduate College “The Economics of Innovative Change, offered jointly by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics Jena in Germany. He was appointed as the president of International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society during the 2012 Schumpeter Conference in Brisbane. The 2014 Schumpeter Conference will take place in Jena (D) under the main topic "Foundation of Economic Change - Behaviour, Interaction and Aggregate Outcomes". Since 2002 he has been editor of Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

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