Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation series is our home for comprehensive yet accessible texts on the current thinking in the field. These cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections bring together robust theories from a wide range of individual disciplines and provide in-depth studies of existing and emerging approaches to innovation, and the implications of such for the global economy.
The Economics of MedTech Innovation: Balancing Patient Safety with Economic Growth
1st Edition
By Andreas Peters
June 12, 2026
In an era where medical technology advances rapidly yet faces mounting regulatory hurdles, this book explores the critical interplay between patent law and regulatory frameworks that shapes the future of healthcare. It examines a fundamental problem in European medical technology innovation: the ...
Inclusion and Innovation in the Digital Economy
1st Edition
By Ewelina Sokołowska, Małgorzata Gawrycka
February 19, 2026
Inclusion and Innovation in the Digital Economy shows how Europe’s digital future can be both innovative and inclusive. Based on EU-27 data from 2015 to 2023, it uncovers what truly drives digital progress and how countries can align technological growth with social equity. At its heart lies a ...
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Innovation and Vulnerability in the Digital Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Van Kerckhoven, Usman W. Chohan
December 26, 2025
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) constitute a comparatively novel area in academic research and scholarship, but the budding interest in this category of digital and algorithmic organization across various disciplines provides an indication of the possibilities that DAOs wield in terms...
Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy: Tackling the Inequality, Climate and Biodiversity Crises
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
December 26, 2025
Economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis are systemically linked. Accordingly, they should be understood as a single, interconnected system and strategies for resolving them should be guided by this understanding. This book demonstrates how the Green New Deal and its ...
The Digital Economy and the Productivity Paradox
1st Edition
By Michał Włodarczyk, Rafał Wisła
October 28, 2025
Despite the billions of dollars invested in digitalization, productivity growth in developed economies remains sluggish and the promised technological revolution has yet to deliver its full potential. This concise book questions why digitalization is not translating into higher productivity and ...
Innovation and Economic Development: A Microeconomic Perspective
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
October 22, 2025
Microeconomic theorists have largely excluded entrepreneurship and innovation from their theoretical analyses and models. In the existing literature, innovative entrepreneurs are hardly mentioned at all, yet it is precisely these entrepreneurs who, through their establishment of innovation-based ...
Emerging Markets and the Digital Economy: A Framework for Enhancing Global Competitiveness
1st Edition
By Karim Hamza
September 02, 2025
This book provides a strategic blueprint for understanding how pioneering emerging markets are leveraging the digital economy to challenge global economic hierarchies. It explores the role of disruptive technologies like AI, 5G, and fintech in reshaping industries, markets, and economic structures....
Responsible Industry 4.0: A Framework for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
By David Mhlanga
August 29, 2025
The growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase global wealth and tackle some of the world's most serious problems, including economic marginalization. In contrast, these innovations may contribute to widening economic gaps and potentially threaten ...
Governing China's Digital Transformation: Industrial Policy, Regulatory Governance, and Innovation
1st Edition
By Jiwei Qian
July 31, 2025
This book examines China’s digital transformation and its complex policy landscape, offering fresh insights into how the world’s second-largest economy navigates the challenges of governing its rapidly evolving digital sector. Through detailed analysis, it reveals the intricate relationship between...
Culture, Innovation and the Green Economy: Towards a Sustainable Future in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Biljana Mickov
June 25, 2025
The book offers a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to art, culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy, in the context of green transition, as an indispensable sustainability factor. It presents new ...
Deglobalization: China-US Rivalry in the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
May 27, 2025
The emerging conflict between the US and China has an inherent tendency towards a development of deglobalization. It is the historical prerequisites for this deglobalization that are examined in this book. These assumptions are largely based on what is termed the second wave of globalization, based...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Labour Market: Future-proofing Work in the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
January 30, 2025
The innovation economy is the driver for the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and consequently, there is a growing focus on innovation in general and technological innovation in particular. In this context, there is much to suggest that it is the triple impact of artificial ...