Biography

Giuliana is a Professor of the Economics of Innovation. She researches the generation, uptake, and impact of innovations and new technologies; industrial and innovation policy; and applied industrial organisation. Her work has been supported by a two-year mid-career fellowship and over 15 research grants.

Giuliana co-leads the University of Warwick's Sustainability Spotlight research initiative and is the Deputy Director of CEPREC, the UKRI-funded initiative for the uptake of circular renewable technologies to empower energy generation and equitable transition in Sub-Saharan countries (2025-2028). 

She is a member of ESIR, the high-level panel of experts of the European Commission for innovation and industrial policy,  co-leads the British Networks of Industrial Economists and chairs the Finance and Economics Section of the Royal Statistical Society, where she is a former trustee and member of the National Statistics Advisory Group. 

She joined Warwick Business School in September 2012 from the University of Nottingham, where she was a professor and the research director of the Economics and Finance division at the Nottingham University Business School. She studied at the University of Bologna, the London School of Economics, Warwick, Strasbourg and Maastricht (MERIT) University. She held teaching, research and visiting positions at Williams College (USA), Politecnico of Milano (Managerial Engineering) and Oxford University.

Giuliana was one of the Fellows of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), member of the ONS Economic Experts Advisory Group, on matters related to productivity, the measurement of economic aggregates and data strategy. She has advised and researched various organisations and governments, including the Bank of England, the National Infrastructure Commission, the equivalent of the Ministry of Business, Innovation, Energy and Industrial Strategy of various countries, and the Research Institute of Financial Structures and Economic Development.

Research Interests

The generation and diffusion of innovations; Technological change and technology adoption; productivity; industrial economics; innovation, patents, R&D, green and industrial policy. PhD supervision area: any of the above.