Scientific Journal Articles
On the economics of innovation, trade and sustainable development
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Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization, Growth and Inequality:
Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent? 2024, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766 ( with Derick Almeida and Tiago Neves Sequeira)
What They Don't Teach You about Artificial Intelligence at Business School: Stagnation, Oil, and War, 2024, IZA Discussion Paper No. 17306, Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship, 2024, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16483 [Published as Chapter 17 in the Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar Publishers, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802206791 ]
Artificial Intelligence in Economics, Journal for Labour Market Research, 2022, 56 (12). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-022-00319-2 (with Gries, T).
Artificial Intelligence: Neither Utopian nor Apocalyptic Impacts Soon, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30(1): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2020.1839173
Data Deprivations, Data Gaps and Digital Divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Big Data & Society, 2021, 19 August, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20539517211025545 (with Vinuesa, R.).
Artificial Intelligence vs COVID-19: Limitations, Constraints and Pitfalls, AI & Society, 2020, 35 (3): 761-765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00978-0
The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy, AI & Society, 2020, 35 (2): 367–379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-019-00887-x (with Dimitri, N.)
Intelligente Eindammungsstrategien gegen COVID-19: Die Rolle von KI und grossen Daten, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 21 (3): 311–322, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2020-0021
The (Un) Sustainability of Entrepreneurial Innovation: On Growth, Green Growth and Degrowth:
The Myth of Entrepreneurship as a Tool: Reorienting Business Venturing as a Goal in Itself in a Post-Growth Society, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00512 (with Mazzoni, L. and Innocenti, N).
Business and Entrepreneurship is Declining as Scholarly Field: Empirical Evidence, PLOS ONE, 20(5): e0323297, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323297
Economics for a Safe Operating Space: A Green-Growth-Degrowth Model, 2025, IZA Discussion Paper No. 18110, Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics (with Gries, T.).
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward, Journal of Technology Transfer, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-025-10208-8
Climate Technology Entrepreneurship: A Primer, 2025, IZA Discussion Paper No. 17794, Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society, 2024, IZA Discussion Paper No. 17158, Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
No, Degrowth Won’t Save Us, 2023, British Medical Journal , 382: p2245. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2245
Entrepreneurship and Development: Realities and Future Prospects - A Review, Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 36: 173–178, 2021, https://doi.org/10.3917/jie.036.0173
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review Towards a New View, Journal of Economic Surveys, 33 (2): 389–403, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12286 (with Hessels, J.).
Regulating the Negative Externalities of Enterprise Cluster Innovations: Lessons from Vietnam, Innovation and Development, 4 (2): 203–219, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2014.921356 (with Voeten, J.).
Surfeiting, the Appetite May Sicken’: Entrepreneurship and Happiness, Small Business Economics Journal, 42 (1): 523–540, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-013-9492-x (with J.E. Amorós and O. Cristi).
Climate Change and Industrial Policy, Sustainability, 3 (7): 1003–1021, 2011, https://doi.org/10.3390/su3071003
Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries, World Development, 39 (1): 33–44, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.05.005
Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics: New Approaches and Insights, Small Business Economics Journal, 34 (1): 1–12, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9198-2
Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Start-Ups in a Developing Country, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 20 (2): 111–124, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1080/08985620701631498 (with Gries. T. and Wood, E.).
Theoretical Models of Entrepreneurial Innovation, Growth, and Development:
The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, International Journal of Economic Theory, 12 (1): 151–165, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12086 (with Gries, T. and Jungblutt, S.).
Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (3): 216–224, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.11.008 (with Gries, T.).
Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation, Small Business Economics Journal, 34 (1): 13–29, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9192-8 (with Gries, T.).
Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards a General Theory of Start-Ups, The European Journal of Social Science Research, 22 (3): 309–328, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610903354877 (with Gries, T.).
Trade and Endogenous Formation of Regions in a Developing Country, Review of Development Economics, 12 (2): 248–275, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00382.x (with Gries, T. ).
Trade and Development:
Trump’s Trade War: EU Exports at Risk and Alternative Markets, Global Economy Journal, Online Ready, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1142/S219456592550006X (with M. Cameron).
Late Industrialisation and Global Value Chains under Platform Capitalism, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2023, 50: 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-022-00240-2
Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal, Notas Economica, 2021, 52 (1): 7–53, 2021, https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/notaseconomicas/article/view/9787
Playing the Lottery or Dressing Up? A Model of Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2015, 58: 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2015.02.010 (with Bilkic, N. and Gries, T.)
The Impact of Transport Costs on New Venture Internationalization, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2011, 9: 62–89, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0066-6 (with Matthee, M.)
Export Diversification and Economic Performance: Evidence from Brazil, China, India and South Africa, Economic Change and Restructuring, 2011, 44: 99–134, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-010-9089-1 (with Rossouw, R.)
Export Specialization and Local Economic Growth, The World Economy, 2010, 33 (4): 552–572, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01239.x (with Bosker, M, and Matthee, M.)
Vulnerability, Trade, Financial Flows and State Failure in Small Island Developing States, Journal of Development Studies, 46 (5): 815–827, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220381003623822 (with Santos-Paulino, A. and McGillivray, M.).
Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2010, 8 (1): 87–111, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0049-7 (with Rossouw, S.)
Identifying Export Opportunities for South Africa in the Southern Engines, International Business Review, 2010, 19 (4): 345–359 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2010.01.003 (with Cuyvers, L. and Viviers, W.)
The Optimal Distance to Port for Exporting Firms, Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (3): 513–528, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00599.x (with Gries, T. and Matthee, M).
Geography, Transport and Africa’s Proximity Gap, Journal of Transport Geography, 2009, 17 (1): 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.04.011
Rushing in Where Angels Fear to Tread? The Early Internationalization of Indigenous Chinese Firms, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, 2009, 2(3): 163–177, https://doi.org/10.1108/17544400910994742
Explaining Regional Export Performance in a Developing Country: The Role of Geography and Relative Factor Endowments, Regional Studies, 2009, 43 (7): 967–979 https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400801932300 (with Gries, T.)
Trade and Endogenous Formation of Regions in a Developing Country, Review of Development Economics, 12 (2): 248–275, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00382.x (with Gries, T. ).
Innovation, Trade and Conflict:
Trump’s Trade War: EU Exports at Risk and Alternative Markets, Global Economy Journal, Online Ready, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1142/S219456592550006X (with M. Cameron).
The Conflict between Social Role Expectations and Entrepreneurial Role Demands among Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Study from Ethiopia, Gender in Management: an International Journal, 36 (3): 430–448, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-08-2019-0141 (with Hundera, M., Duysters, G. and Dijkhuizen, J.).
How do Role Conflict Intensity and Coping Strategies affect the Success of Women Entrepreneurs in Africa?” Journal of Small Business Management, 59 (6): 1180–1210, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2020.1756121 (with Hundera, M., Duysters, G. and Dijkhuizen, J.).
Business under Fire: Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57: 3–19, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002712464846 (with Brück, T. and Verwimp, P.).
Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order, Journal of Development Studies, 52 (2): 254–268, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1081173 (with Stel, N.).
Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 24 (2): 161–178, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2011.10593532 (with Brück, T. and Verwimp, P.).
The Innovation Slowdown and the Great Stagnation:
The End of the Empire that Entrepreneurship Built: How Seven Sources of Rot will Undo the West, Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship, 2024, 20 (5): 400–492. https://doi.org/10.1561/0300000126
Late Industrialisation and Global Value Chains under Platform Capitalism, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2023, 50: 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-022-00240-2
From the Entrepreneurial to the Ossified Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1): 105-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab042
Global Finance after the Crisis: Reform Imperatives and Vested Interests, Global Economy Journal, 11 (2): 6, 2011, https://doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1729
Entrepreneurial Innovation on the Margins: Migrant, Refugee and Rural Entrepreneurship:
Refugee Entrepreneurship: Context and Directions for Future Research, Small Business Economics, 2021, 56: 933-945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00310-1 (with Desai, S. and Stel, N.)
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Does the Motivation to Start-Up a Firm Matter?” Journal of Business Research, 2021, 127: 389–398, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.044 (with Amoros, J,E. and O. Cristi).
Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: Critical Questions, IZA Journal of Migration, 6 (5), 2017, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-016-0077-8
Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: New Empirical Evidence, Food Policy, 67: 175–219, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.019. (with Nagler, P.).
Spatial Proximity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Non-Farm Rural Enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria, Regional Studies, 51 (5): 688–700, 2016, https://10.1080/00343404.2015.1131896 (with Owoo, N.)
Migrant Remittances Provide Resilience Against Disasters in Africa, Atlantic Economic Journal, 42 (1): 79–90, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-014-9403-9 (with Bezuidenhout, H.).
What do We Know About the Patterns and Determinants of Female Entrepreneurship Across Countries? The European Journal of Development Research, 22 (3): 277–293, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2010.17 (with Minniti, M.).
The Determinants of Migration from Sub-Saharan African Countries, Journal of African Economies, 19 (3): 330–356, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejq004
Entrepreneurial Innovation, Vulnerability and Disasters:
COVID-19 and the City: Did Urbanized Countries Suffer more Fatalities?” Cities, 131: 103-909, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103909 (with Nagler, P.).
Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation: Theoretical Conjectures, Economics of Disasters & Climate Change, 2021, 5(3): 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-021-00089-0 (with Gries, T.).
Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global development after COVID-19, Covid Economics, 2020, 55 (4): 100-121. https://cepr.org/publications/covid-economics-issue-55#392514_392931_390657
Reorienting Entrepreneurial Support Infrastructure to Tackle a Social Crisis: A Rapid Response, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 14: e00181, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00181 (P. Munoz, T. Williams, and F. Rodrigo).
Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 1 (3): 4, 2011, https://doi.org/10.2202/2157-5665.1029 (with Gries, T.).
Vulnerability, Trade, Financial Flows and State Failure in Small Island Developing States, Journal of Development Studies, 46 (5): 815–827, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220381003623822 (with Santos-Paulino, A. and McGillivray, M.).
Small Island States Development Challenges: Introduction, Journal of International Development, 2008, 20 (4): 481–485, https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1476 (with M. McGillivray and A. Santos-Paulino).
