Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Graduated with an MA in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor in Economics at the University of Aalborg. He has worked on science and technology issues in relation to employment and international competitiveness and currently concentrates on innovation theory, national systems of innovation and competence building and on the analysis of the economics of knowledge.
Lundvall was senior lecturer at Aalborg University 1973-1992. Between September 1992 and February 1995 Bengt-Åke Lundvall was Deputy Director of the Science, Technology and Industry Directorate of the OECD before becoming a guest professor at University Louis Pasteur (BETA) in Strasbourg until his return to Aalborg in August 1995. He has since been guest professor at the University of Aix en Provence and at the Sant'Anna School in Pisa.
He is a former member of the Danish Social Science Research Council, and functions as consultant to OECD/DSTI, Unctad, the World Bank, the European Commission as well as to governmental bodies in Denmark and several other countries. He is associate editor of the journals Innovations, Revue d’Economie Industriel, Research Policy and Journal of Industrial and Corporate Change. He serves as a referee for several other journals, including Cambridge Journal of Economics and Futures. 1995-2001 Bengt-Åke Lundvall coordinated Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) and he is a member of the IKE-group. Together with Luc Soete initiator of the world-wide research network GLOBELICS.Member of the scientific advisory board of CRIC at Manchester University and of the French organisation Intelligence Economique.
A CV and a list of publications can be accessed, as well as a page on on-going projects.
Email: bal@business.aau.dk
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