Keun Lee is a Distinguished Professor at the Seoul National University (Econ. Dept), and the winner of

the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic

Catch-up (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press), as well as 2019 Kapp Prize from EAEPE (European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy). He is an editor of Research Policy, an associate

editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, and a GFC member of the World Economic

Forum since 2016. He served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society (2016-

18), a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN (2014-18). He obtained

Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. One of his most cited

articles is a paper on Korea’s Technological Catch-up published in Research Policy. 

He has published several books:

 In 2024; Innovation-Development detours for latecomers, Cambridge Univ Press.

China's Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up, Oxford Univ Press (2021);

The Art of Economic Catch-up: barriers, detours, and leapfrogging, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2019.​​