Introduction to the special issue from the 2018 ISS conference
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Introduction to the special issue from the 2018 ISS conference Keun Lee 1 & Andreas Pyka 2 # The Author(s) 2020
It is a great pleasure to launch this special issue of JEEC from the ISS 2018 conference held in Seoul, South Korea, July 2–4. The theme of the ISS 2018 was “Innovation, Catch-up, and Sustainable Development”. Keun Lee, one of the guest editors of this special issue, served as the President of the Society (2016–2018) and also as the main host or Chairman of the Organizing Committee, for the Seoul conference. Actually, it took 26 years to return to Asia: the last ISS conference in Asia was held in Kyoto, Japan in 1992. This turned out to be a good decision for the International Schumpeter Society: About 380 papers were presented out of the 469 initial submissions from more than 50 nations around the world. Among these 380 presentations, there were about 90 papers presented by young scholars who are either graduate students and new PhD’s. At the conference, keynote speakers included long-standing Schumpeterian scholars as well as those scholars whose research subject is related to the theme of the conference. In the opening session, Bengt-Åke Lundvall gave a speech on Transformative Innovation Policy and Global Challenges: a System’s Perspective, and Sir David Sainsbury talked about New Economic Thinking: A Dynamic-Capability Theory of Economic Growth. Other notable scholars gave their talks in special sessions on the following topics: creative destruction and capitalism, innovation policies and strategies, productivity slow-down, issues in east Asian economies, Schumpeterian economics, frontiers of innovation studies, and finally a session in honor of Luigi Orsenigo. Some of the names are as follows, in the order of the days and time of their speech: Massimo Egidi, Horst Hanusch, Mike Gregory, Chen Jin, João Carlos Ferraz, Slavo Radosevic, Giovanni Dosi, Justin Yifu Lin, Hiroyuki Odagiri, Jang-Hee Yoo, John Mathews, Bjørn T. Asheim, Bo Carlsson, Yoshinori Shiozawa, Ben Martin, Uwe Canter, Franco Malerba, William Maloney, Andreas Pyka, John Walsh, Kazuyuki Motohashi, Cesar Hidalgo, Xiaobo Wu, and Mei-Chih Hu. In the meantime, the Schumpeter Prize of the ISS 2018 went to two eminent scholars in the field. Professor John Mathews and Michael Best shared the Prize for their books * Andreas Pyka a.pyka@uni–hohenheim.de
1
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2
Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
K. Lee, A. Pyka
on “Global Green Shift” (Anthem Press, 2017), and “How Growth Really Happens” (Princeton University Press 2017), respectively. John Mathews has also contributed a piece to this special issue, on a theme related to his prize winning book, that is, Schumpeterian economic dynamics of greening. The President of the Society, Keun Lee, followed the custom of the ISS to deliver the presidential address. The topic of his address was ‘the Art of Economic Catch-up: Barriers, Detours and Leapfrogging in Innovation Systems,” and a part of his lecture was about the measurement and an
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