Wim Naudé

Research Fellow

RWTH Aachen University

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Research Interests

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. 13649
Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
published in: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2021, 15 (2), 219 - 235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13606
Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth
Thomas Gries, 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. 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
published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35 (3), 761-765
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
published as ' From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy' in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1), 105 - 131
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
published as 'Artificial intelligence: neither Utopian nor apocalyptic impacts soon' in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30 (1), 1-23.
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
published as 'Ready for Industry 4.0? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe' in: Mohammad Dastbaz, Peter Cochrane (eds.), Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future, Springer International, 2019, 153-175
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
published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158
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