Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Bengt-Åke Lundvall (born in 1941) is professor at the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University (Denmark) (since 1977) and at Sciences-Po in Paris, France, since 2007. He was also a visiting professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2004-06. According to the research carried by Fagerberg & Verspagen (2007) on innovation studies,[1] Lundvall is number 4 in "The most important sources of scholarly inspiration" (only after Schumpeter, Nelson, and Lundvall's mentor Freeman)

His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to the innovation system (in fact this concept was created by him in 1985[2]) 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 network 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, 1985[3] 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).[4]

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Personal life

He admits that his high school experience during the 1960s was almost a failure. He was a college student of Law in 1964. He wrote a textbook on Marx in 1970. Something highly important was his involvement 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) in the early 1980s.

References

  1. ^ Innovation studies an emerging discipline (or what)? A study of the global network of innovation scholars. Jan Fagerberg & Bart Verspagen 2006
  2. ^ Innovation System Research Where it came from and where it might go. By Bengt-Åke Lundvall 2007
  3. ^ Lundvall, B.-Å. (1985). Product Innovation and User–Producer Interaction. Aalborg University Press.
  4. ^ Lundvall, B.-Å.; Björn Johnson (1994). "The learning economy". Journal of Industry Studies 1 (2): 23–42.

Publications

Books

Articles in Journals

Articles in books and antologies

Dosi, G. m.fl. (eds.): Technology and Economic Theory, London: Pinter Publishers, 1988.

København, 1987.

Working Papers

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