Andreas Pyka is Professor of Economics and holds the chair of innovation economics at the Business and Economics Faculty of the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany. He has degrees in management sciences and economics (University of Augsburg) and he received his PhD from the University of Augsburg. His main fields of research are industrial dynamics, Neo-Schumpeterian Economics and innovation networks drawing on numerical approaches, in particular agent-based modeling.

John Foster is Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in Australia, Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, Director of the UQ Energy Economics and Management Group and past President of the International J.A. Schumpeter Society. He has degrees in Business (Coventry University) and Economics (University of Manchester); he received his PhD from the University of Manchester. His current research areas include: the macroeconomy as a complex adaptive system; evolutionary modeling of economic growth; the application of self-organization theory to statistical/econometric modeling in the presence of structural transition; the economics of innovation, the economics of renewable energy.