Wim Naudé

Research Fellow

RWTH Aachen University

naude@time.rwth-aachen.de

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Research Interests

I am an economist concerned with planetary habitability. In particular, with the dynamics between economic growth, entrepreneurship, trade and technological innovation on the one hand, and their tensions with ecology, energy and equitable social outcomes on the other.

My most recent books on these deals with (1) the futility of green growth, sustainable entrepreneurship and degrowth to avert ecological crises, with (2) the economics of Artificial Intelligence, and with (3) the relationship between entrepreneurship and violent conflict.

I am currently writing a book on the economic dimensions of what can be described as the relative decline (and “collapse”) of global capitalism, extending my previous work on the Ossified Economy (see e.g. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab042).

I joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2013.

New books:

Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales (2023). Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45582-7

Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models;(May 2024). Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/artificial-intelligence/339CA2EF1957A527D18F190375FC359F

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict (July 2024). Edward Elgar Publishers. Available at : https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-research-on-entrepreneurship-and-conflict-9781802206784.html

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IZA Publications

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16916

Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?

Wim Naudé

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16483

Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408

Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191

We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139

Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043

Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16000

Artificial Intelligence and the Economics of Decision-Making

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15946

State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence

Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós, Tilman Brück

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15607

The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15077

Breakthroughs, Backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence: An Extended Real Options Approach

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14545

Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Findings from a Machine Learning Contest

Wim Naudé, Amy Bray, Celina Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14341

The Race of Man and Machine: Implications of Technology When Abilities and Demand Constraints Matter

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14171

Modelling Artificial Intelligence in Economics

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14154

The Rise and Fall of German Innovation

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14021

Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13875

Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal

Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13835

Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation: Theoretical Conjectures

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13829

Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13667

Digital Entrepreneurship Research: A Concise Introduction

Wim Naudé, Werner Liebregts

forthcoming in: Data Science for Entrepreneurship, edited by W.J. Liebregts, W.J.A.M. van den Heuvel and J.A. van den Born, to be published by Springer.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13649

Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13606

Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13110

Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602

The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218

The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141

The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron

forthcoming in: Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12005

Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737

The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy

Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri

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

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