ERIK LINDHULT is senior lecturer in innovation management and entrepreneurship at Mälardalen University in Sweden. His main area of research is participatory, collaborative and democratic innovation and action research, as well as entrepreneurship for sustainable development of society. He is long term researcher and educator in participatory/democratic approaches to research, including in the national PAR research education program of the Swedish Participatory Action Research Society (SPARC). His dissertation was on Nordic dialogue democratic approach and tradition applied to action research in work life and regional development. Recent publications include methodological and epistemological issues in moving towards a more collaborative, democratic science, as well as systemic and social innovation. Erik is engaged in the lively Scandinavian tradition of action research in different variants and its integration with global developments in participatory approaches and democratization of knowledge and research including collaborations with networks such as ALARA, ARNA, CARN, ISA and EURAM. He is part of ongoing initiatives to further dialogues and the knowledge democracy movement. He is board member of the Swedish Participatory Action Research Society (SPARC), Swedish Interactive Research Association (SIRA), and is engaged in ISA, RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-management, and ALARA.