Bengt-Åke Lundvall (born 1941, Sweden) is an emeritus professor in economics at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University.
[1] Lundvall started his academic career at the University of Gothenburg as Assistant professor in 1969.
Since 1995 he is Professor at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University,[1] where he founded the IKE Group 1977.
[2] 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 1985[3]) and the learning economy.
[5] According to the research carried by Fagerberg & Verspagen (2007) on innovation studies,[6] Lundvall is number 4 in "The most important sources of scholarly inspiration" (only after Schumpeter, Nelson, and Lundvall's mentor Freeman) Books Selected papers.