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.

Presents a concise history of Schumpeterian economics through four decades of intellectual development Includes personal reflections and biographical insights from scholars shaping Schumpeterian thought today Shows how the evolution of a discipline is connected to the lives and careers of its leading scientists

Autorentext

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 corporate—and particularly sustainable—transformation, 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.

Inhalt

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. Schumpeter's Research Programme from the Perspective of Participant Observers Towards Supra-Schumpeterian Economics.- Chapter 4. Men of deed vs bureaucratic cripples Joseph A. Schumpeter's 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 Schumpeter's 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. Schumpeter's 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.