WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

Francesca Guadagno is Economist at wiiw. Her research focuses on industrial policy, structural change, innovation and new technologies. Recent publications include studies on smart specialisation strategies, industrial ecosystems and resilience. She has recently started to work on issues of sustainability and circularity and contributed to the UNIDO SwitchMed Programme. Before joining wiiw, she worked on EU and global issues as a senior researcher at CSIL (Milan) and as a consultant at UNIDO, WIPO, and UNCTAD, among others. She earned a PhD from UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.