Professor Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Aalborg Universitets Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet, skal næste år være særlig EU-ambassadør for kreativitet og innovation. Sammen med 21 andre prominente personer fra hele verden, med samfundsdebatøren og forfatteren Richard Florida, USA, i spidsen, skal de arbejde for, at kreativitet og innovation kommer på dagsordenen for alle EU-borgerne i 2009.
Bengt-Åke Lundvall er eneste dansker blandt de eksklusive udvalgte.
De 21 ambassadører er
- Ferran Adrià Acosta (ES), legendarily creative chef, with a research lab
- Esko Tapani Aho (FIN), statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland, author of report on innovation, Nokia's Head of Corporate Relations and Responsibility and Executive Vice-President
- Karlheinz Brandenburg (DE), researcher in information and communication technology
- Jean-Philippe Courtois (FR), President, Microsoft International
- Edward de Bono (MT), author, lateral thinking, creativity
- Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (BE), dance choreographer
- Ján Ďurovčík (SK), dance choreographer and director
- Richard Florida (US), author, creative class
- Antonín Holý (CZ), chemist
- Remment Lucas Koolhaas (NL), architect, urban planner
- Dominique Langevin (FR), physicist
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (IT), Nobel laureate, neurologist
- Áron Losonczi (HU), architect
- Bengt-Åke Lundvall (DK), leading European researcher on innovation
- Javier Mariscal (ES), designer, Olympic games of Barcelona
- Radu Mihăileanu (RO), film director and screenwriter
- Blanka Říhová (CZ), microbiologist
- Ken Robinson (UK), arts, author, key report on creativity
- Ernő Rubik (HU), Architect, teacher and designer, inventor of Rubik's cube
- Jordi Savall i Bernadet (ES), musician, viola da gamba
- Christine van Broeckhoven (BE), molecular geneticist
- Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson (SE), Director, Karonlinska Institutet