Dr Bastian Rake, lecturer in the School of Business, has been elected as member of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society’s (ISS) Board of Management by the ISS’s general assembly. The general assembly was held during the 17th ISS Conference in Seoul, South Korea in July 2018. With several hundred members from across the globe, the ISS aims to advance research in directions that are in the spirit of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Its members address research areas such as the dynamics of structural change, its origins and effects, the role of the dynamic entrepreneur, as well as technical change and innovation.
Among other activities, the ISS organizes and supports international conferences and symposia, publishes the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and awards prizes in recognition of recent scholarly contributions related to the ideas of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Further information about the ISS and its activities can be found here: http://www.issevec.uni-jena.de/Organization.html.