Main fields of research and interest

• Economics of Innovation
• Evolutionary Economics
• Industrial Economics
• Productivity: Theory and Measurement
• Public Economics, Public Finance

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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[at]uni-jena.de

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

 

Most Recent Publications

• Cantner U., K. von Rhein, Location matters? Die französische und deutsche Automobilindustrie im Vergleich, in: J. Granda, J. Schreiber (Hrsg), Perspektiven durch Retrospektiven, Böhlau Verlag: Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2013, 147-168
• Cantner U., H. Graf, S. Hinzmann, Policy induced innovation networks: the case of the German “Leading-Edge Cluster competition”, Jena Economic Research Papers 2013-008, 2013
• Cantner U., M. Wohlgemuth, Evolutionary public choice, in: M. Reksulak, L. Razzolini and W.F. Shughart II (eds), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, 2nd edition, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2013, 693-727
• Cantner U., Innovation – zwischen Unsicherheit und Risiko, in: S. Jeschke, E. Jacobs (eds), Exploring Uncertainty – Ungewissheit und Unsicherheit im interdisziplinären Diskurs, Springer, 2013 (in press)
• Cantner U., S. Vannuccini, A New View of General Purpose Technologies, in: A. Wagner, U. Heilemann, Festschrift für Karl Heinrich Oppenländer zum 80. Geburtstag, Lucius & Lucius Verlag,  Stuttgart , 2012, 71-96
• Cantner U., S. Kösters, Picking Winners? – Empirical Evidence on the Targeting of R&D Subsidies to Start-ups, Small Business Economics 39, 2012, 921–936
• Cantner U., S. Vannuccini, A New View of General Purpose Technologies, Jena Economic Research Papers 2012 – 054, 2012
• Cantner U., J. Krüger, R. Söllner, Product Quality, Product Price and Share Dynamics in the German Compact Car Market, Industrial and Corporate Change 21(5), 2012, 1085-1115
• Buenstorf, G., U. Cantner, H. Hanusch, H.W. Lorenz, F. Rahmeyer (eds), Editorial: The two sides of innovation, Special Issue, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22(3), 2012, 407-411
• Buenstorf, G., U. Cantner, H. Hanusch, H.W. Lorenz, F. Rahmeyer (eds), The two sides of innovation, Special Issue, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22(3), 2012
• Cantner U., Innovationes Jenenses – Some insights into the making of a hidden star, in: Bünstorf (eds), Evolution, Organization and Economic Behaviour, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, 222-243
• Stützer M., M. Göthner, Cantner U., Do Balanced Skills Help Nascent Entrepreneurs to Make Progress in the Venture Creation Process?, Economics Letters 117, 2012, 186-188
• Göthner M., M. Obschonka, R.K. Silbereisen, U. Cantner, Social identity and the transition to entrepreneurship: The role of group identification with workplace peers, Journal of Vocational Behavior 80(1), 2012, 137–147
• Göthner M., M. Obschonka, R.K. Silbereisen, U. Cantner, Scientists’ transition to academic entrepreneurship: Economic and psychological determinants, Journal of Economic Psychology 33(3), 2012, 628–641
• Dicke K., U. Cantner, M. Ruffert (eds), Die Rolle der Universität in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, IKS Garamond, 2012
• Dicke K., U. Cantner, M. Ruffert, Editorial, in: Dicke K., U. Cantner, M. Ruffert (eds), Die Rolle der Universität in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, IKS Garamond, 2012, 5-15
• Cantner U., Quo vadis, Jena? – Einführung von Uwe Cantner, in: Dicke K., U. Cantner, M. Ruffert (eds), Die Rolle der Universität in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, IKS Garamond, 2012, 215-217
• Cantner U., S. Hinzmann, Kann Clusterförderung Innovationen fördern?, in: Weingarten J. (Hrsg.), Infrastruktur für Wissen und Wirtschaft, Idar-Oberstein: Hilden GmbH&Co KG, 2012, 86-94
• Cantner U., B. Raake, International Research Networks in Pharmaceuticals: Structure and Dynamics, Jena Economic Research Papers 2011 – 055, 2011
• Cantner U., K. Joel, T. Schmidt, The effects of knowledge management on innovative success – an empirical analysis of German firms, Research Policy 40(10), 2011, 1453-1462
• Cantner U., Nähe und Distanz bei Wissensgenerierung und –verbreitung – Zur Rolle intellektueller Eigentumsrechte, in: O. Ibert, H.J. Kujath (Hrsg.), Räume der Wissensarbeit – Zur Funktion von Nähe und Distanz in der Wissensökonomie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2011, 83-102
• Cantner U., J. Krüger, K. v. Rhein, Knowledge Compensation in the German Automobile Industry, Applied Economics 43(22), 2011, 2941-2951
• Brenner T., Cantner U., Fornahl, D., Fromholz-Eisebith M., Werker C. (eds), Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters, and Knowledge Networking, Special Issue, Papers in Regional Science 90(2), 2011
• Brenner T., Cantner U., Fornahl, D., Fromholz-Eisebith M., Werker C., Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters, and Knowledge Networking – An introduction, Papers in Regional Science, 90(2), 2011, 243-249
• Bürger M., Cantner U., The Regional Dimension of Innovativeness – An Empirical Investigation of two Specialised Supplier and two Science-Based Industries, Papers in Regional Science 90(2), 2011, 373-394
• Cantner U., A. Meder, T. Wolf, Intermediation, reciprocity and innovation cooperations of firms, Papers in Regional Science 90(2), 2011, 313-330

 

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

 

Scientific appointments

since 1997	Member of the faculty of the European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics (ESSID)
since 1998	General Editor of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS)
1999-2000	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
since 2005	Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the DIME EU-Network of Excellence
2005-2006	Member of the Council of the ZEW Innovationpanel
since 7/2006	Spokesman DFG-RTG 1411 "The Economics of Innovative Change"
since 10/2006	Chairman 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
since 2009	Member Scientific Advisory Board of the IWH in Halle/Saale
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)
since 06/2010	President-elect of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society

 

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