Participation of the LIEE-NTUA in the 36th annual EAEPE Conference, Bilbao, 4-6 September 2024
The LIEE-NTUA participated in the 36th International Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) which was held on 4-6 September 2024 in Bilbao, Spain, and had as its theme “Economics in a changing world. New perspectives to economic analysis and economic policy”.
See the detailed program of the Conference here
On the part of the EAEPE-NTUA, the Conference was attended by the NTUA Assistant Professor Emilia Protogerou, the Postdoctoral Researchers Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Petros Dimas, the Doctoral Candidate Dimitrios Stamopoulos, and the EAEPE-NTUA research associate and Assistant Professor of the University of Thessaly, Ioanna Kastelli, who is also the President of the EAEPE and gave an introductory speech at the Conference.
In more detail, A. Protogerou and I. Kastelli, coordinators of the research areas E2 “Entrepreneurship and Business Theory” and E1 “Industrial Development and Policy” respectively, organized a series of sessions within the framework of their respective areas. In more detail, A. Protogerou organized 2 sessions, in which a total of 7 papers were presented, and I. Kastelli organized with Lukasz Mamica 3 sessions, in which a total of 12 papers were presented. In addition, I. Kastelli organized with Lukasz Mamica 2 special sessions on the topic of Green Industrial Transformation, in which a total of 8 papers were presented.
It is noted that the 37th EAEPE Conference will be organized by the EVEO-NTUA in Athens (at the premises of the NCSR “Demokritos”) during the period 24-26 September 2025. In this context, at the closing of this year’s Conference, Emilia Protogerou made an informative presentation to the Conference participants.
The following are the sessions in which the members of the EVEO-NTUA participated either by presenting research work or in the role of coordinator:
Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (1)
Chair: Glykeria Karagouni
- Rodrigo Bolliger, Bruno Brandão Fischer, Adriana Ferreira De Faria: Impact Assessment of Technology Parks in Brazil
- Aimilia Protogerou, Protogerou Aimilia, Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Petros Dimas, Yannis Caloghirou: Determinants of Investment in Intangible Assets: Evidence from Europe
- Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Aimilia Protogerou, Yannis Caloghirou: Digital Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study in Seven European Countries
Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (2)
Chair: Aimilia Protogerou
- Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Rethinking Value Chains and Raw Materials for a More Competitive Handicrafts Industry
- Marios Emmanouil, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Open Eco-Innovation in the Greek Dairy Sector: The Case of a Biofunctional Yogurt Dessert
- Marios Trigkas, Glykeria Karagouni: Wood Value Chain and Carbon Neutrality; a Challenge for the Wood Craft Sector
- Angeliki Tsameti, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Market Analysis of the Greek Chestnut: A Proposed Business Model for the Chestnut Flour
Research Area E1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Samuele Bibi
- Beata Farkas, Christian Schweiger: Challenges of the Central European Manufacturing Core
- Ludwig Hehl: The Political Economy of Industrial Policies in Mexico and Turkey
- Rodrigo Lucena: The Conventions of Industrial Entrepreneurs During the Brazilian Government of President Dilma
- Eunyong-Cho: Challenge and Conversion: Kim Dae-Jung Administration in South Korea and Neo-Liberalism
- Ioanna Kastelli, Alysson Mazoni, Petros Dimas: Knowledge Generation and Sourcing in the Food and Beverage Sector
Research Area SEA: STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Chair: Ariel Wirkierman
- Facund Fora-Alcalde: International Productivity Leakages as a Cause of Underdevelopment
- Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Aimilia Protogerou: Participation and Positioning of Greek Sectors in Global Value Chains and Evolution of Their Trade Patterns
- Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona, Ariel Luis Wirkierman: Nearshoring, Global Value Chains’ Structure and Volatility
- Marta Fana, Davide Villani, Ariel Wirkierman: Complementarity of Occupations and Sectoral Relatedness: An Input-Output Perspective
Research Area GIT: GREEN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION: CHALLENGES IN TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES
Chair: Ioanna Kastelli
Discussants: Timan Altenburg, Joao Ferraz, Anais Voy-Gillis, Anita Pelle
- Tilman Altenburg: The Political Economy of Green Industrial Policy
- Joao Ferraz, Wilson Peres, Julia Torracca, Tatiana Fleming: Green Industrial Policies: Where from, Where to?
- Anais Voy-Gillis, Samuel Klebaner: Is the French Industrial Decarbonisation Policy an Industrial or Business Policy?
- Anita Pelle: The Nature and Scope of Interaction Between Policy-Making and International Business: The Case of the European Green Deal
Participation of LIEE-NTUA in the 36th Annual Congress of EAEPE, Bilbao, 4-6 September 2024
LIEE-NTUA participated in the36 International Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary PolityicalnEconomy (EAEPE) held on 4-6 September 2024 in Bilbao, Spain, on the theme “Economics in a changing world. New perspectives to economic analysis and economic policy”.
See the detailed programme of the conference here
From the side of LIEE-NTUA, the Conference was attended by the Assistant Professor Emilia Protogerou, the Postdoctoral Researchers Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Petros Dimas, the PhD Candidate Dimitrios Stamopoulos, and the research associate of LIEE-NTUA and Assistant Professor of the University of Thessaloniki, Ioanna Castelli, who is also President of EAEPE, gave an introductory speech at the Conference.
More specifically, A. Protogerou and I. Castelli, coordinators of the research areas E2 “Entrepreneurship and Theory of the Firm” and E1 “Industrial Development and Policy” respectively, organized a series of sessions within the respective areas. More specifically, A. Protogerou organised 2 sessions, in which a total of 7 papers were presented, and I. Castelli organised with Lukasz Mamica 3 sessions, in which a total of 12 papers were presented. In addition, I. Castelli organised with Lukasz Mamica 2 special sessions on Green Industrial Transformation, in which a total of 8 papers were presented.
It is noted that the 37th EAEPE Conference will be organized by the LIEE-NTUA in Athens (at the premises of the NSEFET “Demokritos”) during the period 24-26 September 2025. In this context, during the closing of this year’s Conference, Emilia Protogerou gave an informative presentation to the Convenors.
The following is a detailed list of the sessions in which the members of LIEE-NTUA participated either by presenting research work or in the role of coordinator:
Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (1)
Chair: Glykeria Karagouni
- Rodrigo Bolliger, Bruno Brandão Fischer, Adriana Ferreira De Faria: Impact Assessment of Technology Parks in Brazil
- Aimilia Protogerou, Protogerou Aimilia, Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Petros Dimas, Yannis Caloghirou: Determinants of Investment in Intangible Assets: Evidence from Europe
- Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Aimilia Protogerou, Yannis Caloghirou: Digital Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study in Seven European Countries
Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (2)
Chair: Aimilia Protogerou
- Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Rethinking Value Chains and Raw Materials for a More Competitive Handicrafts Industry
- Marios Emmanouil, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Open Eco-Innovation in the Greek Dairy Sector: The Case of a Biofunctional Yogurt Dessert
- Marios Trigkas, Glykeria Karagouni: Wood Value Chain and Carbon Neutrality; a Challenge for the Wood Craft Sector
- Angeliki Tsameti, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Market Analysis of the Greek Chestnut: A Proposed Business Model for the Chestnut Flour
Research Area E1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Samuele Bibi
- Beata Farkas, Christian Schweiger: Challenges of the Central European Manufacturing Core
- Ludwig Hehl: The Political Economy of Industrial Policies in Mexico and Turkey
- Rodrigo Lucena: The Conventions of Industrial Entrepreneurs During the Brazilian Government of President Dilma
- Eunyong-Cho: Challenge and Conversion: Kim Dae-Jung Administration in South Korea and Neo-Liberalism
- Ioanna Kastelli, Alysson Mazoni, Petros Dimas: Knowledge Generation and Sourcing in the Food and Beverage Sector
Research Area SEA: STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Chair: Ariel Wirkierman
- Facund Fora-Alcalde: International Productivity Leakages as a Cause of Underdevelopment
- Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Aimilia Protogerou: Participation and Positioning of Greek Sectors in Global Value Chains and Evolution of Their Trade Patterns
- Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona, Ariel Luis Wirkierman: Nearshoring, Global Value Chains’ Structure and Volatility
- Marta Fana, Davide Villani, Ariel Wirkierman: Complementarity of Occupations and Sectoral Relatedness: An Input-Output Perspective
Research Area GIT: GREEN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION: CHALLENGES IN TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES
Chair: Ioanna Kastelli
Discussants: Timan Altenburg, Joao Ferraz, Anais Voy-Gillis, Anita Pelle
- Tilman Altenburg: The Political Economy of Green Industrial Policy
- Joao Ferraz, Wilson Peres, Julia Torracca, Tatiana Fleming: Green Industrial Policies: Where from, Where to?
- Anais Voy-Gillis, Samuel Klebaner: Is the French Industrial Decarbonisation Policy an Industrial or Business Policy?
- Anita Pelle: The Nature and Scope of Interaction Between Policy-Making and International Business: The Case of the European Green Deal
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:
LIEE participated with two presentations at this year’s conference LEADING AND MANAGING IN THE DIGITAL ERA: Shaping the Future of Work and Business Education, which took place from June 19 to 23 in Athens and Syros.
2nd presentation: “A new era for the Greek ecosystem of Innovation and Knowledge-Intensive Innovative Entrepreneurship”
More information, as well as the conference program, can be found here
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.
