Uwe Cantner

Who is Uwe Cantner?

Uwe Cantner is a German Economist. In 1990 he received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany, and in 1996 he successfully habilitated at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Since 2000 he is Full Professor of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and heads the Chair of Economics/Microeconomics. Economics of Innovation, Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Economics, and Productivity and Effiency Measurement are his major fields of research. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark. 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 2010 Schumpeter Conference. He is editor of Journal of Evolutionary Economics.