Wim Naudé

Research Fellow

RWTH Aachen University

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I am Professor of the Economics of Innovation, Trade and Development at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and head of its research section ITD - Innovation, Trade and Development. I am also a Adjunct Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

My research and teaching is focused on the economics of technological innovation, trade and planetary habitability.

The central focus of my current work is to highlight the unsustainable nature of the growth-based economic system, manifested in a "Guns, Oil and Oligarch" nexus.

I joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2013.

I have authored 60 IZA Discussion Papers, with 441,354 total downloads by September 2025.

IZA personal ranking position: 22 among a total of 13,669 IZA DP authors.

New books:

-The Economic Decline of the West: Guns, Oil and Oligarchs (2025). Palgrave Macmillan. Available here.
-Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales (2023). Palgrave Macmillan. Available here.
-Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models (2024). Cambridge University Press. Available here.
-Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict (2024). Edward Elgar Publishers. Available here.


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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737
The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri
published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35, 367–379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332
Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11195
Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?
Wim Naudé
revised version published as 'Urbanisation and Entrepreneurship in Development: Like a Horse and Carriage? 'in: Dastbaz,M., Naudé, W. and Manoochehri, J. (eds.), Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability, Springer, 2018, 29 - 47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194
Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11103
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Jolanda Hessels, Wim Naudé
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (2), 389 - 403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10855
Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9817
Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9744
The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve
Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut, Wim Naudé
published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12 (2), 151-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9743
Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Nora Stel, Wim Naudé
published in: Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, Oxford University Press, 2016, 591–612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9521
Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Wim Naudé
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