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Kovács, O. (2026): Mastering the Spirited Horse: A Review of The Economics of Creative Destruction. Journal of Evolutionary Economics Vol. 36, 31 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-026-00956-7 The publication of The Economics of Creative Destruction (2023), edited by Ufuk Akcigit and John Van Reenen, represents a definitive summation of the endogenous growth revolution initiated by Philippe Aghion and Peter Howit

Kovács, O. (2025): A minőségi növekedés felé – a nemnövekedés értékelése (The Road to Qualitative Growth: Revisiting the Concept of Degrowth). Közgazdasági Szemle, Vol. 72., No. 1, January 2025, pp. 59-91, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18414/K.2025.1.59  The concept of degrowth, which advocates more restrained quantitative economic growth, is mostly referred to as a sitcom theory in mainstream economics. The aim of this p

With the European Union’s competitiveness not at its best, the need to boost innovation-driven economic growth is back on the agenda. In the meantime, the need for a dramatically new approach compared to the past seems to be becoming increasingly clear. Genuine innovation-led growth is not about quantitative growth, but about qualitative growth that reconciles societal needs with the limits of our planet. This

Title InterAct Webinar – What can we expect from the Industry 4.0 revolution? Role Role: speaker Title of the presentation: Industry 4.0 – Why Revolutionise? Location Online Webinar hoster by InterAct-hub (UK Economics and Social Research Council, University of Sheffield, Loughborough University, University of Strathclyde Glasgow) Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Date 23 May 2024

Kovács, O. – Domonkos, E. (2024): Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward? Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 36., No. 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2024.2323834  This contribution aims at: (i) mapping the deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation tendencies over the economic history of the Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slo

Kovács, O. (2024): Exaptationary Industry 4.0: Graphene as pathfinder? Technological Forecasting and Social Change,  Volume 200, March 2024, 123183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123183 This paper seeks to answer the puzzling question whether Industry 4.0 inevitably triggers a sociogenesis that results in new attitudes toward the nature of the socio-economic innovation ecosystem. It asks whether Industry 4.

Kovács, O. (2023): Reversing the Great Suppression – Unleashing the Catalytic Public Sector for Innovation Dynamism. Ludovika Publishing, Budapest, p. 368 Somewhere along the line, something happened to the global economy that has robbed the confidence and courage of the innovation ecosystem, leaving it gripped by a fear of discovery, change, and an overwhelming dread of the unknown. This book delves into the i

Kovacs, O. (2020): Instant Digital Economy? – Hungary Going Digital. KKI Policy Brief, 2020/07. Abstract The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it addresses the question whether optimism about the instant productivity-boosting character of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation is justified. Second, by keeping in mind the potential pitfalls of such a production revolution, it looks at Hungary to see how it is pr

Title Annual Conference for the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business Role Role: speaker Title of the presentation: The Visegrad Countries and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in a Multispeed Europe Location Lund University School of Economics and Management, and the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business, AF Borgen, Lund, Sweden. Date 13-14 November 2018

Kovács, O. (2018): The Complexity of the European Integration – The General Vectors of Disorientegration. European Mirror, Vol. 21., Special Edition No. 1, pp. 29-47. The paper transcends prevailing literature on the crisis of European integration by demonstrating that disorientegration (losing orientation and weakening integration) is not a recent fortuitous event but a systemic pattern. It shows how the centrifugal