Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is professor at the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University (Denmark) and at Sciences-Po in Paris, France. He was also a visiting professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing.

His research is organized around a broad set of issues related to innovation systems and the learning economy. 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 national system of innovation in the second half (Lundvall, 1985 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).

Publications

:"This list may be incomplete."
*cite book| title=How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models | editor=Edward Lorenz and B.-Å. Lundvall | year=2006 | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=0199203199
*cite journal| title=The learning economy | year=1994 | last=Lundvall | first=B.-Å. | coauthors=Björn Johnson | journal=Journal of Industry Studies | volume=1 | issue=2 | pages=23–42
*cite book| title=National Systems of Innovation: Toward a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning | year=1992 | editor=B.-Å. Lundvall | isbn=9781855670631 | publisher=Printer Publishers Ltd.
*cite book| last=Lundvall | first=B.-Å. | title=Product Innovation and User–Producer Interaction | year=1985 | publisher=Aalborg University Press

External links

Aalborg University link to his profile [http://www.business.aau.dk/ike/members/bal.html] .