The Ph.D. candidate D. Stamopoulos participated in the workshop “Quality Criteria & Personalized Services” organized by the Ministry of Youth and Education on Friday, March 29, 2024, at the VIOS Workplace auditorium.
In the first section of the workshop, the sets of quality criteria and the Self-Assessment Tool for businesses created by the Entrepreneurship Support Mechanism were presented. A case study of a company that has used the tool was extensively analyzed, along with recommended actions to improve its performance.
The theme of the second section of the workshop concerned the analysis of advisory services offered by the Mechanism to the beneficiary businesses of the action. Specifically, services such as business plan development, marketing plan, and market research implementation were presented.
You can view the workshop presentations at the following links:
- “Sets of quality criteria and Self-Assessment Tool”
- “Personalized Advisory Services for the businesses of the Municipality of Athens”
The event was implemented within the framework of the Operational Program “Attica 2014-2020” Action: “Support for the Development of New Enterprises in RIS sectors by utilizing closed stores in the center of Athens (commercial triangle)”, Code ΟΠΣ 5158568, and is funded by the European Union (European Social Fund (ESF)) and national resources through the Public Investment Fund (ΠΔΕ).
The Contracting Authority is the Athens Development and Tourism Promotion Company (EATA), and the Contractor of the project is ICAP Advisory.
Photographs from the seminar below:
Participation of A. Tsakanikas in the Open workshop of InSocial on Artificial Intelligence
A. Tsakanikas participated with a short thematic intervention at InSocial’s Open Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI), held on Thursday, January 25 at Impact Hub Athens.
The Workshop discussed the opportunities and challenges that IT creates for research, economic development, entrepreneurship and innovation, the challenges that IT poses to society such as bias, job losses and data security and privacy . Key issues of the necessary National Strategy of Greece for IT, the objectives for the development of IT and especially issues for sectors of the economy and society were also highlighted.
The event was recorded and is available as a Video Podcast from Innovation Talks.
Conference for the presentation of the NETonKIE research project’s results, 14 December 2023
The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) organized a conference in the context of the completion of the research project “Greek Participation in European Research Networks and its Impact on Innovation and Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship” (NETonKIE), which was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI).
The conference was conducted on December 14, 2023, in the Multimedia Amphitheater of the NTUA Library.
The Conference included the presentation of the project’s research results as well as a series of organized discussions (panels) with various types of actors (research groups of universities & research centers and business firms) participating in the European research Framework Programmes as well as policy actors.
More specifically, the topics of the organized discussions were the following:
- The expectations and benefits of start-ups from their participation in the Framework Programmes
- The Framework Programmes as a lever for enhancing innovation and technological upgrading of firms
- The importance of Framework Programmes for the research activity of Universities and Research Centers
- Public policies and business strategies for the better utilization of European Programmes
See the program (in Greek) of the conference here.
See the invitation (in Greek) of the conference here.
The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics of the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA (LIEE-NTUA) is glad to be a part of the 10th Anniversary celebration of Women Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative held with the participation of more than 140 universities worldwide.
On this occasion, LIEE-NTUA hosted the online event “Nurturing female-led innovation and entrepreneurship” on October 19, 2023, from 17:30 to 19:30 EEST.
This year’s event focused on the role of Technology Transfer Offices in empowering women in science and research, and highlighted innovative knowledge-intensive ventures from different sectors of economic activity.
Keynor Ruiz Mejías, Professor and Associate Researcher at the International Centre of Economic Policy for Sustainable Development (CINPE) of the National University of Costa Rica, carried out a full-time secondment from 13/2/2023 until 13/4/2023 at the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the context of the Horizon 2020 CatChain project (GA n. 778398).
In the context of his secondment, Prof. Ruiz Mejías made a seminar titled “Costa Rica: Export diversification and some GVC lessons from a small country” on April 4, 2023. The presentation of Prof. Ruiz Mejías was followed by a discussion in which the members of LIEE-NTUA took part.
