On Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the PhD Candidate of the National University of Cyprus (NTUA) G. Siokas, gave an interview to the show “Shades” of the Mesogios FM station on Kokkino-105.4 on the topic of the 14th Seminar on the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy, which will be held on July 18-21, 2019 in Ermoupoli, Syros and is organized by the INFOSTRAG team of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory.
This year’s seminar is entitled “Digital Transformation, e-Government and Innovative Entrepreneurship in the Perspective of Sustainable Development” and is organized in collaboration with the Cyclades Chamber, the Industrial Property Organization, the Open Technologies Organization – ΕΕΛ/ΛΑΚ, the Innovative Business Incubation Program “Invent ICT”, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Hellenic Blockchain Hub.
Among other things, during the interview, the topic and program of the seminar were discussed, which is successfully organized for the 14th consecutive year at the premises of the Cyclades Chamber in Ermoupoli, Syros.
You can find the interview here.
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NTUA Assistant Professor Angelos Tsakanikas, Director of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory of the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA and Scientific Director of the Entrepreneurship Observatory of the Institute of Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), attended as a speaker at the 3rd Hellenic Innovation Forum which took place at the Divani Caravel Hotel on Thursday, June 20, 2019.
The subject of his speech was bridging the gap between research and commercialization, focusing on the current state of the Greek business environment and highlighting the main actions linking research and entrepreneurship that take place under the auspices of the NTUA, focusing on the operation and action of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit of the NTUA (MKE-NTUA), the incubator EPI.noo EPISEY – NTUA and the InventICT business start-up program in information and communication technologies that operates under the auspices of the incubator.
You can find his presentation here.
The speech of Professor of Technological, Economic & Industrial Strategy at the National Technical University of Athens, Yannis Kalogirou, at the presentation of the Historical Archive of the Vovolini Brothers which took place on Monday, March 18, 2019, at Polychoros EcoZone.
NTUA Professor Yiannis Kalogirou will participate as a speaker in the presentation of the Historical Archive of the Vovolini Brothers on Monday, March 18, 2019.
To attend the event, it is necessary to complete the Registration Form here.
*The Vovolini Archive has already been serving research for 22 years (year of establishment: 1997) and is considered one of the most important sources of economic and Greek history in general, as it reflects an entire era of approximately 150 years, highlighting unknown aspects of the formation of the Greek state. The main body of the Archive consists of documents produced by the Vovolini brothers, who were also knowledgeable in the processes of information collection and archive preservation.
For more information about the Vovolini Archive, click here.
NTUA Professor G. Kalogirou and NTUA Assistant Professor and Vice President of the Industrial Property Organization A. Tsakanikas participated as speakers at the Exploiting IP at universities: European progress conference 2018, which was organized on October 18-19 by the European Patent Academy, the Industrial Property Organization and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens.
You can find the detailed program of the conference here (pdf file).
A practical guide containing basic information about the conference and the city is here (pdf file).
The conference offers practices exchange on how to exploit IP at universities in Europe. It will concentrate on how to raise IP awareness, promote IP education and foster technology transfer. Topics will range from IP policies to engaging TTOs in raising awareness activities and better exploiting research results as well as open science and patents, building new indicators for IP performance and on how to raise funds for innovations. To this end, we would like to invite University, TTO and Ministry representatives as well as European academic networks active in the field to discuss the best way forward. This edition of the two-day conference will be organized by the European Patent Academy of the European Patent Office in co-operation with the Hellenic Industrial Property Organization.
Contents
- Best practices: Building IP policy in universities
- Engaging TTOs in raising awareness in universities
- Newest IP initiatives from EPO, EUIPO and National POs
- Building new indicators for IP performance of universities and measuring overall impact
- Technology transfer case studies for universities
- Creating value from research results for the ‘IP ecosystem of innovation’
- How to raise funds for innovations
- Open Science and patents
- Choosing and capitalising on the right innovation
- Best practices: Exploiting research results
Objectives
After the conference you will have an overview of best practices in IP awareness, IP education and IP exploitation within the academic world in the 38 EPC contracting states. You will learn about existing networks and experts in the field as well as new tools, products and programs to better exploit IP in universities in Europe.
Prerequisites
You will have to be nominated by a national patent office (NPO). In case of interest please contact the respective NPO of your country. If you experience difficulties in reaching out to the NPOs, please contact the EPO.