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.
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 ...
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 ...
Global Innovation, Finance, and International Commerce
1st Edition
By F. John Mathis, Raja M. Almarzoqi
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the historical context and progression of "significant innovations" beginning with the industrial revolution, starting around 1750 to the present. It explores the interrelationship, causes, and evolutionary process of contemporary "disruptive" inventions and the role played by ...
Philosophy of Digital Currencies: A Theory of Monetizing Time
1st Edition
By Ugochukwu Chigoziem Ikpeazu
August 26, 2024
Current systems are failing the poor because these systems are unable to provide the financial inclusion needed for basic subsistence and commerce, which in turn would drive micro- and macro-economic growth. This book introduces the reader to a new way of thinking about how value can be created, ...
Industrial Revolution 4.0: Economic Foundations and Practical Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanisław Mazur
May 27, 2024
The radical transformations to which the economy and society have been subjected for decades have gained momentum in recent years, not least because of the coronavirus pandemic, the consequences of which are yet to be fully understood. As a result, certain economic models and business practices are...
A Systemic Approach to Continuous Change in the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
January 29, 2024
Unpredictable and unforeseen, or black swan, events are occurring increasingly often, one such recent example is the coronavirus crisis of 2020. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its growing use of artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, intelligent informats and intelligent algorithms, ...
The Dynamics of the Innovation Divide between China and Europe: National and Regional Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Arkadiusz Michal Kowalski
September 25, 2023
This book examines the problem of the innovation divide in the world economy, and convergence in innovation performance between leaders and followers, analysed through the prism of Chinese experiences, and explored from an European Union (EU) perspective. The rationale for research conducted in ...