Innovation, catch-up, and sustainable development : introduction to the proceedings from the 2018 ISS conference

It is great to launch these conference proceedings from the ISS 2018 conference held in Seoul, July 2-4, Korea. The theme of the ISS 2018 was "Innovation, Catch-up, and Sustainable Development". Keun Lee, one of the guest editors of this volume, served as the President of the Society (2016-2018) and also as the main host or Chairman of the Organizing Committee, for the Seoul conference. Actually, it took 26 years to return to Asia: the last ISS conference in Asia was held in Kyoto, Japan, in 1992. And it turned out to be a good decision for the International Schumpeter Society to return to Asia: About 380 papers were presented out of the 469 initial submissions from more than 50 nations around the world. Among these 380 presentations, there were about 90 papers presented by young scholars who are either graduate students or new Ph.D. students.