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; and a Fellow of the ASC, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

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

I joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2013.

I have authored 62 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.




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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18293
Good-for-Nothing Entrepreneurs: Capitalism and Democratic Decline in the West
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18281
An Economist’s Ode to the Forests and the Sea
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18110
Economics for a Safe Operating Space: A Green-Growth-Degrowth Model
Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17794
Climate Technology Entrepreneurship: A Primer
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17773
Retaliation Against Trump’s Trade War: Why and How the EU Should Find Alternative Export Markets
Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
published online as 'Trump's Trade War: EU Exports ar Risk and Alternative Markets' in: Global Economy Journal, 2025,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17306
What They Don't Teach You about Artificial Intelligence at Business School: Stagnation, Oil, and War
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17158
Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17075
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
Wim Naudé
published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16916
Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?
Wim Naudé
published as 'Business and entrepreneurship is declining as scholarly field: Empirical evidence' in: PLOS ONE, 2025, 20 (5), e0323297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766
Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?
Derick Almeida, Wim Naudé, Tiago Neves Sequeira
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