"How to Make an Entrepreneurial State" was first published in 2022 and quickly translated into Finnish, Indonesian, Portuguese (for Brazil), and Chinese. For the German edition, the authors, who are also responsible for the translation, have updated and revised the main part of the book and added a preface and an epilogue specifically addressing Germany. The book is a tour de force, a must-read for anyone dealing with innovation policy, state modernization, and solving wicked problems such as climate change, pandemics, or digital transformation. Vincent Homburg, International Journal of Public Administration (2023). The committee appreciates that you draw on both classical and modern organizational theory, economic sociology, and political economy in your book to break away from the prevailing narrative of the state as a passive enabler of private innovation. You propose a new model of the "entrepreneurial state" - a state that actively invests in innovation and entrepreneurship and coordinates these efforts in various ways: for example, through direct investments, public contracts, policy measures, or strategic partnerships with private actors. Overall, this perspective represents a groundbreaking contribution to global management knowledge. Justification for the George R. Terry Award from the Academy of Management for "the book that has made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge in the last two years." (2023) The profound changes in competition, technology, climate, and geopolitics currently unfolding require nations to have a state capable of addressing challenges, defending its interests, and promoting them. This understanding of a strong, innovative, and innovation-promoting state is the central concern of Kattel, Drechsler, and Karo.