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Prof. Uwe Cantner has been confirmed by the Cabinet as a member of the Expert Commission Research and Innovation for another four yearsThe Expert Commission on Research and Innovation presents the Federal Government with an annual report on research innovation and technological performance in Germany most recently in February 2021. In doing so it provides diverse and important impulses for Germany as a country of innovation. Its acting chairman Professor Uwe Cantner was recently appointed for a further four years. Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek explainsI am delighted that Professor Cantner as a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the field of innovation economics will continue to provide us with his expertise. We live in a time that clearly shows us the importance of research innovation and technological performance. Germanys innovative strength is the essential basis for us to be able to cope well with the pandemic and its economic and social consequences. Our science and innovation system has proven itself here. In order to further strengthen Germany as a location for innovation evidence-based policy advice from independent scientists is of great importance. The Expert Commission for Research and Innovation EFI has a central position in this. BackgroundThe Expert Commission on Research and Innovation EFI provides scientific policy advice to the Federal Government and has been submitting reports on research innovation and technological performance in Germany once a year since 2008. A central component of the reports are recommendations for action for national research and innovation policy. The EFI report 2021 was handed over to the federal government on February 24 2021 link to the report httpswww.bmbf.defiles2021-02-2403520PM20EFIGutachten.pdf.Prof. Cantner holds the chair for microeconomics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena where he is also Vice President for Young Scientists and Equal Opportunities. In his research he deals among other things with questions of innovation economics in the areas of entrepreneurship and start-up research cooperation and network research as well as general-purpose technologies including the associated system transformations. The new appointment period for the incumbent chairman begins on May 1 2021.Other members of the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation are Katharina Hlzle Deputy Chair head of the IT Entrepreneurship research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute Faculty for Digital Engineering at the University of PotsdamIrene Bertschek head of the digital economy research area at ZEW Mannheim and professor at the Justus Liebig University in GiessenHolger Bonin Research Director at the Institute for the Future of Work IZA Bonn and Professor of Economics at the University of KasselCaroline Hussler holder of the chair for organization technology management and entrepreneurship at the University of PassauTill Requate Professor for Innovation Competition Policy and New Institutional Economics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
