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.

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. 16483
Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 292–328
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
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191
We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139
Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023
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
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15946
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós, Tilman Brück
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924
Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713
The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15607
The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020
Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
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