Rainer Walz Editor

Prof. Jakob Edler is the Executive Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany), and Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy at the University of Manchester (UK). His main areas of research are analysis and design of governance and policy in science and innovation, and the role of the state in influencing social and economic transformations.

Prof. Rainer Walz is the Deputy Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany). His prior employment includes the Enquête Commission on "Protecting the Earth's Atmosphere" of the German Bundestag. His main areas of research are lead markets and competitiveness of industry, sustainability innovations, and interaction between economic development, globalization, and industrial policy.