Professor Yannis Caloghirou of NTUA, as an invited speaker, delivered a lecture at EKDDA on April 4, 2017, titled:

“Structural Policies for Development and Competitiveness – The Return of Industrial Policy and Its Linkage with Public Policies for RTDI (Research, Technological Development and Innovation) and Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in the Early 21st Century.”

You can view the presentation here.

LIEE had a very active participation in the 28th Annual Conference of EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) that was held in Manchester, UK from 03 to 05 of November 2016 by the Manchester Metropolitan University. The main title and concept of the Conference was “Industrialisation, Socio-Economic Transformation and Institutions“.

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Professor Yannis Caloghirou, Doctor Aimilia Protogerou, Doctor Ioanna Kastelli, PhD Candidate Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and the LIEE collaborator Glykeria Karagouni participated with paper presentations and/or with a discussant or chairman role in the following five Sessions of two different Research Areas (E1. Industrial Policy and Development, E2. Entrepreneurship and Theory of the Firm):

E2-1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM – Resources and capabilities in business entreprises and public organisations

Chair: S. Golesorkhi
Discussant: D. Filiou

• G. Karagouni, A. Protogerou and Y. Caloghirou: Dynamic entrepreneurial capabilities and dynamic capabilities in low-tech knowledge intensive corporate venturing
  
• A. Protogerou and Y. Caloghirou: Do dynamic capabilities matter for young firms’ performance and growth? Evidence from Europe
• P. Panagiotopoulos: IT resourses and capabilities in the field of local government: The case of Greek Municipalities 
• C. Shephard: Macro and micro sustainability in innovation in the legal services sector and the management of paralegals.

E2-2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THEORY OF THE FIRM – Dynamics of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship

Chair: P. Panagiotopoulos
Discussant: G. Karagouni

• Y. Caloghirou, A. Protogerou and A. Tsakanikas: Developing a taxonomy for knowledge intensive entrepreneyrship: An empirical study of young European companies 
  
• A. Protogerou, Y. Caloghirou and A. Tsakanikas: Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in high-technology and low-technology manufacturing sectors 
  
• M. Belitski, B.L. Delgado-Marquez and L. Pedauga: Innovative Networks, Diversity and Proximity: Evidence from UK and entrepreneurial implications
• Y. Caloghirou, A. Protogerou, A. Tsakanikas and I. Kastelli: High-potential entrepreneurship and engineering graduates in Greece
  

E1-1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – Linking micro level, institutional context and industrial policy

Chair: R. Nureev
Discussant: Y. Caloghirou

• P. Debanes: Bureaucrats, disrupters and dinosaurs: Political economy of start-up promotion policies in Korea.
• S. Klenaber: How do car manufacturers deal with European regulation on pollutant emissions? Toward a political economic framework to understand the micro governance of industrial policy.
• S. Newman, B. Kilama: Financial Development in Tanzania: challenges for industrial development and job creation.
• A. Cardenas O´Farrill: Industrial policy in atypical economic contexts: the Cuban biotech industry.

E1-2: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – Structural dimensions of industrial policy

Chair: T. Geodecki
Discussant: T. Geodecki

• C. Carrasco, A. Hernandez-del-Valle: In search of the structural component of the European external imbalances: A proposal.
• K. Konstantakis, P. Michaelides: Market Structure and R&D in Austria (2008-2015): Schumpeterian Insights via Dynamic Panel Data Analysis.
• H. Sherry: Industrialising the MENA Region: The Case Study of Lebanon
• T. Giannitsis, I. Kastelli: Linking structural and institutional change to industrial recovery in Greece. 
  

E1-4: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – New challenges for industrial policy

Chair: I. Kastelli
Discussant: A. Botta

• E. Hollander: Demand shaping and the quadruple challenge for industrial policy.
• Neto, A. Pelle: EU industry; 2nd league: one or two (or even more) peripheries?
• Ł. Mamica: Dematerialized and re-dematerialized economy – revolution in industrial policy

On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 6:00 PM, an event was held at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub of Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, INNOVATHENS, to present the work and plan the next steps of the Smart Cities Consortium. The “Consortium” is made up of the Municipalities of Athens, Thessaloniki and Heraklion Crete, the INFOSTRAG research group of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory (LIEE) of the National Technical University of Athens, the Open Technologies Organization – EELLAK, the Association of Greek Mobile Application Companies (SEKEE) and the Association of Mobile Telephony Companies (EEKT).

Smart cities are part of the broader plan of Western societies for the transition to a knowledge society and economy. They describe environments that enhance human creativity, learning and innovation capabilities. They are created by the integration of systems in a local community (Municipality, Region) that automate interactions between end users (citizens, institutions) and applications of a networked ecosystem.

In the first section of the event, each member of the “consortium” presented the actions that have been taken to date according to “commitment-7948”, while in the second section, the planning for the next six months for each member was presented.

The detailed program of the event was:

18:00  Introductory Speeches

18:10  Open Technologies Organization – EELLAK

18:20  Municipality of Athens

18:30  Municipality of Thessaloniki (Presentation)

18:40  Municipality of Heraklion (Presentation)

18:50  INFOSTRAG Research Group of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory (EVEO) of NTUA (Presentation)

19:00  Association of Mobile Application Companies of Greece (SEKEE) (Presentation)

19:10  Association of Mobile Telephony Companies (EEKT) (Presentation)

19:20  Planning of future actions

19:50  Discussion – Conclusions

The Energy and Industrial Economics Laboratory (LIEE) of NTUA participated in the DRUID 2016 20th Anniversary Conference held at CBS in Copenhagen from 13 to 15 June 2016.

DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) was established in 1995 by CBS, AAU and SDU, with the aim of promoting the visibility of innovation and entrepreneurship research in Denmark. Today, the annual DRUID conference is one of the largest European management conferences, rivaling only the Academy of Management in the US, attracting leading innovation and entrepreneurship researchers from around the world. The 2016 conference was attended by 350 researchers from 35 countries with main research interests in management, economics and sociology, with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. Within this framework, topics such as open innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, research and development, scientific knowledge production, global innovation networks, as well as institutional, social and eco-innovation were presented.

Specifically, from the LIEE/NTUA, the following participated: Giannis Kalogirou, NTUA Professor, Angelos Tsakanikas, NTUA Assistant Professor, and Emilia Protogerou, PhD in Engineering and researcher at the LIEE/NTUA as commentators of the papers published and presented at the DRUID 16th conference, but they also presented two papers with the following titles: “Dynamic capabilities in young entrepreneurial ventures: Evidence from Europe” (paper) and “Industry-University R&D Collaboration and Innovative Performance of Greek Manufacturing Firms in Times of Crisis: Do Interactions of Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Stocks Matter?“ (paper), respectively.

You can see the conference program here.

The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics of the National Technical University of Athens (EBEO NTUA) participated in the 2016 Eu-SPRI Conference, which was held at CIRCLE, Lund University, from June 7 to 10, 2016.

The Eu-SPRI conference aimed to create a community of researchers active in the field of research and innovation and to foster interaction and exchange of views both among researchers themselves and between researchers and policymakers.

Specifically, participants included Yannis Caloghirou, Professor at NTUA, and Aimilia Protogerou, PhD engineer and researcher at EBEO NTUA, who presented on “Why enhancing resources and capabilities of newly-established firms can lead to superior innovative performance? Implications for innovation and entrepreneurship policy.”

You can view the presentation here.