Bengt-Åke Lundvall (born 1941, Sweden) is an emeritus professor in economics at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University.
Biography Lundvall obtained his MA in economics at the University of Gothenburg in 1967.Bengt-Åke Lundvall AAU personal profile. Accessed 01.02.2015.
Lundvall started his academic career at the University of Gothenburg as assistant professor in 1969. In 1973, he moved to the Aalborg University, where he was appointed associate professor. From 1992 to 1995 he was deputy director at OECD Directorate for Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI). Since 1995 he is professor at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University, where he founded the Innovation, Knowledge and Economic Dynamics Research Group (IKE) 1977.
Lundvall was involved in the organization of Aalborg University during 1973–1977. A turning point in his career was his visit at the SPRU (UK) and Stanford (US) 1984. He was invited to become special invited professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2004-06 and to become visiting professor at Sciences Po in Paris 2007–2010. He has kept a relationship with the top university of China, Tsinghua, over the years.
Work Lundvall's research is organized around a broad set of issues related to the innovation system (in fact this concept was created by him in 1985Innovation System Research Where it came from and where it might go. By Bengt-Åke Lundvall 2007) and the learning economy. During 1992-95 he was deputy director at DSTI, OECD. He was involved in the preparation and follow up of the Lisbon Strategy 2000 and onwards. Lundvall has co-ordinated the IKE Group in Aalborg since 1977 and the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) 1996–2001. Since 2002 he coordinates the worldwide research network Globelics.
In close collaboration with Christopher Freeman, Bengt-Åke Lundvall developed the idea of innovation as an interactive process, in the first half of the eighties and the concept of National System of Innovation in the second half (Lundvall, 1985Lundvall, B.-Å. (1985). Product Innovation and User–Producer Interaction. Aalborg University Press. and Lundvall, 1988). In the beginning of the nineties he developed the idea of "the learning economy" in collaboration with Björn Johnson (Lundvall and Johnson, 1994).Lundvall, B.-Å.; Björn Johnson (1994). "The learning economy". Journal of Industry Studies 1 (2): 23–42.
According to the research carried by Fagerberg & Verspagen (2007) on innovation studies,Innovation studies an emerging discipline (or what)? A study of the global network of innovation scholars. Jan Fagerberg & Bart Verspagen 2006 Lundvall is number 4 in "The most important sources of scholarly inspiration" (only after Schumpeter, Nelson, and Lundvall's mentor Freeman)
Selected publications
Books
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke. The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope, Anthem Press, London, 2016. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke. Innovation Growth and Social Cohesion, Edward Elgar, London, 2002. Archibugi, Daniele, and Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, eds, The Globalizing Learning Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, ed. National systems of innovation: Toward a theory of innovation and interactive learning. Pinter Publishers, London, 1992. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke. Product innovation and user-producer interaction. Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 1985.
Selected papers.For a full list, see Google Scholar profile
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, and Susana Borrás. "The globalising learning economy: Implications for innovation policy." Report from DG XII, Commission of the European Union (1997): 34-39. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, et al. "National systems of production, innovation and competence building," Research policy 31.2 (2002): 213-231. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke and Susana Borrás (2005): Science, Technology and Innovation in The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, ed. Jan Fagerberg and David C. Mowery. Oxford University Press. Lundvall, Bengt-Åke. "National innovation systems—analytical concept and development tool." Industry and innovation 14.1 (2007): 95–119. Jensen, Morten Berg, et al. "Forms of knowledge and modes of innovation." Research policy 36.5 (2007): 680–693.
References
External links Aalborg University link to his profile