The Two Sides of Innovation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013 Creation and Destruction in the Evolution of Capitalist Economies Economic Complexity and Evolution Series

Guido Buenstorf is professor of economics at the University of Kassel in Germany. He is also co-director of the International Centre of Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) as well as research professor at the Halle Institute of Economic Research (IWH). His research focuses on industry evolution, the economics of science and technology, as well as regional economics.

Uwe Cantner is Full Professor of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2000 and since 2010 also Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He studied Business Administration at the University of Augsburg und Economics at Wayne State University, Detroit MI. 1990 he received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and he mastered his habilitation in economics 1996 at the University of Augsburg. 1997-98 he was Visiting Fellow at Université du Toulon et du Var and 1998-99 guest professor at the Université de Rennes I. In 2001 he took over as managing editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. His research interests cover Economics of Innovation, Evolutionary Economics, Social and Economic Change, Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, and Behavioural Economics. Very much related to that he currently is serving as spokesman of the Doctoral Training Program DFG-GRK 1411 The Economics of Innovative Change, spokesman of the economics in the executive board of the International Max Planck Research School Adapting Behaviour in a Fundamentally Uncertain World, and director of the Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change.

Horst Hanusch studied Economics at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he wrote his doctoral (1971) and habilitation thesis (1974). From 1974-2010 Full Professor of Economics at the University of Augsburg, since April 2010 Emeritus Professor. 1994 - 1997 President of the International Institute ofPublic Fi