University of Pisa
@elisagiulianitw
Elisa Giuliani is Professor of Management at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa (Italy), where she directs the Responsible Management Research Center - REMARC. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU University of Sussex, 2005 and a PhD in Management from the University of Pisa (2002). She has been visiting at MIT Sloan, Bocconi University, Lund University, University of Sussex. Her research interests are at the interface of international business, economic geography and development studies. She has recently worked on the relationship between international business and human rights, and on socio-environmental compliance of standards in global value chains.
She is Editor of Research Policy, and member of the Editorial Board of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Geography and the Business and Human Rights Journal. She is in the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and Management Organization Review and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association.
She is PI of the Horizon Europe project (2022-2025) REBALANCE “Rebalancing disruptive business of multinational corporation and global value chains within democratic and inclusive citizenship processes”.
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway
@lars_coenen
Lars Coenen is Professor in Innovation and Sustainability Transitions at the Mohn Centre for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo. His research interests converge around the geography of innovation. In particular he is interested in mapping and understanding innovation geographies related to urgent societal challenges and missions such as climate change.
Professor Coenen is well-known internationally for his work on regional and urban innovation and, in particular, his pioneering research on the geography of environmental innovation and sustainability transitions. He is author of more than 60 scientific papers published in leading international journals such as Research Policy, Environment and Planning A and Economic Geography and co-edited the edited volume ‘Urban Sustainability Transitions’. His work has had considerable scientific impact with over 14.000 citations in Scholar Google.
Previously, Lars was full professor at CIRCLE, the Centre for Innovation, Research, and Competence in the Learning Economy at Lund University, where he was heading up a research group dealing with innovation and sustainability transitions. During his time at CIRCLE in Sweden, Professor Coenen has been a frequent scientific advisor for the Swedish Innovation Agency, VINNOVA. From 2017-2020 he has been the inaugural ‘City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities’, at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.