BLANDINE LAPERCHE is Professor (maître de conferences, habilitée à diriger des recherches) of Economics and Vice Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, France. She is responsible for the forum, The Spirit of Innovation. She specializes in the economics of innovation. She has recently published (with Dimitri Uzunidis) John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future in Economics, and (with Dimitri Uzunidis and James Galbraith) Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change. DIMITRI UZUNIDIS is Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, France. He is editor of the review Innovations. He has provided expertise to several international organizations and specializes in industrial economics.