The Two Sides of Innovation / Economic Complexity and Evolution (PDF)

Secretary General of the International J. A. Schumpeter Society (ISS); since 1991 founder and co-editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics; 2006 co-founder of the Lisbon Civic Forum and until 2012 its Secretary General; from 2007 - 2011 Vice-President of the University of Augsburg. Fields of research: Comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian Economics (CNSE)/Public sector economics in a CNSE-framework/ Patterns of Future-orientation in advanced and emerging economies/Global development strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian context. Michael Hutter is Professor at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, Germany.

Michael Hutter is research director at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), where he heads the unit "Cultural Sources of Newness". He also holds a research professorship for "Knowledge and Innovation" at Technische Universität Berlin. He studied mathematics and economics in Germany and the U.S., and he held positions at the University of Munich and at Claremont McKenna College, CA. From 1987-2008, he held the chair for economic theory at Witten/Herdecke University. He was invited as a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio (2000), the School of Information Management Systems, UC Berkeley (2002), and the Getty Research Institute (2003 and 2007). His current research interests are in historical studies that demonstrate the interdependence of economic and artistic innovation, in the economics of the "experience economy", and in issues of valuation in economic as well as in cultural sociology. His most recent larger publication is "Beyond Price. Value in Culture, Economics and the Arts" (Cambridge University Press, 2008), edited together with David Throsby

Hans-Walter Lorenz is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Educated at the universities of Goettingen, Berkeley, and Los Angeles, he is now teaching macroeconomics, growth and business cycle theory with a special interest on the history of thought in these fields. His research interests include the mathematical theory of nonlinear dynamical systems, with numerous applications in various subdisciplines of e.g. physics and biology. 

Fritz Rahmeyer graduated in economics from the University in Münster, Westphalia. He gained his doctorate and his qualification as a professor on economics at the University of Augsburg, where he became a professor of Economics in 1990. His fields of research are evolutionary economics in connection with applied industrial organization and environmental economics. Recently he shows an interest in the History of Economic Thought.