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 – EELLAK/ELLAK, 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.

Social Media:

Infostrag’s Facebook page

The “Shades” show page on Facebook

This year’s two-day Conference and Exhibition “Sm@rt Cities – Digit@l Citizens” will take place on June 25 and 26 at the WYNDHAM GRAND ATHENS. It consists of coherent and efficient platforms for the presentation and promotion of the means to design and create the Greek “Smart City”. Within a dense and efficient two-day event, all interested parties are given the opportunity to present, be informed and share experiences, know-how, opinions, proposals and good practices for Greek “Smart Cities”.

The Conference and Exhibition create the appropriate environment for communication between executives and stakeholders, such as:

• Government executives. Executives of Regions and Municipalities. Public Sector and Public Utility Organizations Executives
• Executives of all levels and sectors, from all sectors that contribute to the design and development of “Smart Cities”.
• Creators, Designers, Implementers and Suppliers of innovative technologies, services and solutions.
• Specialist Consultants, Academics, Researchers, Engineers and executives of sectors and professions that have a direct relationship with Regional Development and Local Government.

The annual two-day Conference and Exhibition Sm@rt Cities – Digit@l Citizens cover a wide range of sectors and applications related to the “Smart Cities” of the 21st century. The Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory participates with the following presentations.

• Angelos Tsakanikas, Asst. Prof. NTUA. Smart cities, development and innovation.
• Dr. Emilia Protogerou, Director of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, NTUA. The importance of Human Resources and Learning Mechanisms for the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies.
• Dr. Evangelos Siokas, coordinator of the incubator EPI.noo. Entrepreneurship support mechanisms and new business models in smart cities.
• Georgios Siokas, Director of the NTUA, EVEO. The Smart City Through the Eyes of Greek Municipalities

Click here to see the conference program.

The participation of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory of NTUA in the 12th Panhellenic Conference on Chemical Engineering, which took place on 27-29 May 2019 at the Eugenides Foundation, was successfully completed. More specifically, the laboratory participated in the following sections with the corresponding presentations:

Session 1: Economic Analysis – Business Administration – Circular Economy
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 14:30 – 16:15, Board Room
Presiding: I. Kalogirou, D. Diakoulaki, I. Koukos

• IMPRINTING THE STRATEGIES OF GREEK SMART CITIES: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS (Abstract – Full Paper – Presentation) G. Siokas, A. Tsakanikas, E. Siokas
• IMPRINTING AND ANALYSIS OF THE VALUE CHAIN ​​OF THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR IN GREECE (Abstract – Full Paper – Presentation) P. Dimas, I. Kastelli, A. Tsakanikas
• THE ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES OF GREEK MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE OPERATIONAL USE OF ICT AND THEIR EVOLUTION IN THE PERIOD 2011-2017 (Abstract – Full Paper) P. Panagiotopoulos, A. Protogerou, I. Kalogirou
• THE INNOVATIVE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE BUSINESS SECTOR IN THE GREEK ECONOMY AS A FUNCTION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF THEIR INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL (Abstract – Full Paper – Presentation) D. Stamopoulos, P. Panagiotopoulos, I. Kalogirou

B’ Session: Energy III
Thursday, May 30, 2019, 16:45 – 19:00, Board Room
Presiding: D. Karonis, S. Neophytidis, G. Arabatzis

• APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERION MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING IN THE DESIGN OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE STABILITY OF SOLUTIONS
  M. Karmellos, P. Georgiou, G. Mavrotas

The PhD Candidate of the NTUA Department of Industrial Engineering Nikolaos Th. Athanasoulis will participate in the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit & Exhibition (SIPS) 2018, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, from 4-7 November 2018. Among other things, he will discuss issues of Smart Cities and Electric Energy Management and his presentation is entitled: “Smart Cities Under Electric Energy Trends: From Autonomous Building Directive to Prosumer Target”.

The Abstract of the presentation can be found here.

The  2018 Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit and Exhibition follows the rich tradition of previous years, covering 3 sustainability pillars: (1) Science, Technology & Industry, (2) Governance & Management and (3) Education & Civil Society.

This time, the summit honors the 2018 STARS of sustainable science, technology, and innovation. In alphabetical order, they are:

• Ing. Paulo Afonso Gomes, B.Sc. – 2018 honoree with Afonso International Symposium on Advanced Sustainable Iron and Steel Making
• Prof. Christian Amatore – 2018 honoree with Amatore International Symposium on Electrochemistry for Sustainable Development
• Prof. Rasmus Fehrmann – 2018 honoree with Fehrmann International Symposium on Sustainable Molten Salt and Ionic Liquid Processing
• Prof. Athanasios Mamalis – 2018 honoree with Mamalis International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials and Structures with Sustainable Industrial Applications
• Prof. Michael Zehetbauer – 2018 honoree with Zehetbauer International Symposium on Science of Intelligent and Sustainable Advanced Materials (SISAM)

The honorees cover areas of sciences that may look distinct, but are mutually related and share sustainability as a common thread.

The summit simultaneously incorporates numerous International Symposia covering the fields of: iron and steel making; electrochemistry; molten salt and ionic liquids; advanced materials; advanced manufacturing; advanced technologies; aluminum; batteries; bio-extraction; cement; coal; coatings; composites; ceramics; ecosystems; education; energy production; environment; ferro-alloys; mathematics; metallic systems; metals and alloys; minerals; mining; multiscale materials; nanomaterials; non-ferrous smelting and hydro/electrochemical processing; quasi-crystals; rare earth and platinum group metals; recycling; and rotary kiln operations. The topics within each symposia span across scientific, technological, environmental, health, legal, management, financial, policy, taxation, social, and pedagogy issues. For the full listing of all symposia in this summit, please click on the “Summit” on the left side menu, and then “Symposia” in the dropdown menu.

More information about SIPS can be found here.

LIEE/NTUA successfully participated in the 30th Annual Conference of EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) that was held in Nice, France, from 06 to 08 of September 2018 at ISEM  Institute (School of Economics and Business), at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. The general theme of this year’s EAEPE Conference was: “Evolutionary foundations at a crossroad: Assessments, outcomes and implications for policy makers“.

Download the Conference Programme here.

The senior researchers Aimilia Protogerou and Ioanna Kastelli, the post-doc researcher Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and the PhD Candidate George Siokas participated with paper presentations (co-authors: Professors Yannis Caloghirou and Aggelos Tsakanikas, and the LIEE collaborators Glykeria Karagouni and Alexandra Kontolaimou) as well as with a discussant and/or chairman role in the following four Sessions of two different Research Areas (E1. Industrial Policy and Development, E2. Entrepreneurship and Theory of the Firm):

Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (1)

Chair and Discussant: Aimilia Protogerou

• Anastasia Constantelou, Nikolaos Konstantopoulos: Counter fighting the effects of economic downturns: Exploring the dynamic organisational capabilities of Greek firms during the economic crisis.
  
• Glykeria Karagouni, Aimilia Protogerou: Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial management in a seventh-generation family-business: the case of succession in Loulis Mills
• Caroline Granier, Valérie Revest, Alessandro Sapio: Growth performance of SMEs: a comparison between listed and non-listed companies in Europe

Research Area E2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM (2)

Chair and Discussant: Anastasia Constantelou

• Aimilia Protogerou, Alexandra Kontolaimou, Yannis Caloghirou: Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: Evidence from Young Firms in Greece
  
• Matti Ylonen: Understanding corporate tax avoidance and corporate power: What can we learn from early evolutionary economists?
• Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Aimilia Protogerou, Yannis Caloghirou, George Siokas: The evolution of the organisational ICT resources, dynamic and operational capabilities of the Greek municipalities in the period 2011-2017: Analyzing the data of two large successive surveys

Research Area E1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT (1)

Chair: Ioanna Kastelli

Discussants: Ioanna Kastelli, Carlo Pietrobelli

• Edilaine Venancio, André Tosi Furtado: Brazilian Innovation Policy for wind energy technology: were there coherence and consistence?
• Guendalina Anzolin: Pattern of Natural Resources Diversification: An Industrial Policy Evaluation Towards the Iron-Ore Value Chain in Brazil
• Amir Lebdioui: The Role of the State in promoting diversification through linkage development in natural resource-rich economies
• Piotr Kopycinski: Embeddedness and evolution of processes implemented by the Business Process Outsourcing sector: dimensions, actors, functions

Research Area E1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT (2)

Chair: Wilfred Dolfsma

Discussants: Wilfred Dolfsma, Andrea Califano

• Francesco Macheda: Iceland: Is this Time Different? Speculation Led vs. Innovation Led-Growth
• Ioanna Kastelli, Aggelos Tsakanikas, George Siokas: How absorptive capacity enables new entrepreneurial ventures of high added value? (pdf)
• Lukasz Mamica: The role of universities in growth of Global Business Services
• Petra Bleuel: The Mittelstand and the “German Model”, to what extent both can be a source of inspiration for the case of French SMEs?