Horst HANUSCH Professor emeritus, Institute of Economics, University of Augsburg. During his academic career he wrote and published numerous books and articles on Public Economics and Schumpeterian Theory. He is the co-founder (together with Wolfgang Stolper) of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society and was its Secretary General until 2022. He is also the Founding Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics and Honorary President of the International Institute of Public Finance. His current research interests focus on a Post-Schumpeterian frame for Public Finance as well as Economic Development Theory. Yasushi HARA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University. Prior to his current position, which he has held since April 2022, he served as a Research Associate at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University; a researcher at the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Center (SciREX Center) at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); a Michelin Fellow at the France-Japan Research Center on Contemporary Japan (CEAFJP/EHESS) at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris; and a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.