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 Digital Economy and the Productivity Paradox
1st Edition
By Michał Włodarczyk, Rafał Wisła
November 03, 2025
Despite billions of dollars invested in digitalisation, productivity growth in developed economies remains sluggish and the promised technological revolution has yet to deliver its full potential. This concise book questions why digitalisation is not translating into higher productivity and ...
Innovation and Economic Development: A Microeconomic Perspective
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
October 27, 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 ...
Robots, Automation and the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
December 30, 2024
Cascades of new technologies and innovations are entering our lives so fast that it is difficult for us to adapt to one innovation before the next becomes embedded into our everyday lives. What happens when the changes brought by technology are so profound that they affect all aspects of our lives?...
Feudal Capitalism and the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
November 28, 2024
In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed. Freedom was restricted, and people were kept in their place by institutional structures. In capitalism, the focus is on free markets, free trade, and a personal ...
The New Silk Road and the Innovation Economy in China
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
October 09, 2024
This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It describes, discusses and analyzes the period from China’s opening up to foreign investment in the 1980s until the New Silk Road project, from 2013 onwards. The ...
Innovation and Economic Development
1st Edition
By Raja M. Almarzoqi, F. John Mathis
September 18, 2024
Over the past two decades, several sudden, unforeseen, and significant changes have occurred in the world's political and economic landscape. This book explores their impact on the processes of contemporary disruptive innovations during the Fourth Industrial Technology Revolution and the role that ...