Lili Wang joined the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) in September 2008. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, with a Ph.D. thesis focusing on regional productivity, catch-up and convergence, structural change and technological spillovers in China. Since 2008 Lili Wang has been working on the ObservatoryNano project, which involves analysis on Nano R&D, Nano scientific publications and economic impact of nanotechnology.