Yannis Kalogirou is Professor Emeritus of Technological Economics & Industrial Strategy at NTUA, former Director of the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (2015-2019) and former Director of the Department of Process and Systems Analysis, Development and Design at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA (2013-2015), Scientific manager of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of NTUA and of the interdisciplinary group INFOSTRAG (Research Group for Technological, Economic and Strategic Analysis of the Information Society) operating within the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory. It is also a research partner in the Laboratory of Network Management and Optimal Network Design at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA.

He participated in the Council of the European Network of Excellence DIME (2005-2012) dealing with the impact of globalisation and the emergence of the knowledge economy and was a member of the Scientific and Management Committee of the EU funded FP7 large-scale integrated project (2009-2012) on the interconnection of knowledge and innovation with entrepreneurship and economic growth. He also participated in several EU expert committees and was rapporteur of the policy document on the socio-economic benefits of the Single European Research Area. He is also an evaluator for DG Research and Innovation of European research programmes.

He has served as chairman of the Scientific Council of the National Documentation Centre (2011-2014) and of the Advisory Council for the development of information technology in public administration of the Ministry of Interior (2010-2011) as well as scientific advisor to KEDKE (2004-2012) for the formulation and implementation of a strategy for the use of information and communication technologies by local government. In addition to the above, he served as Secretary General for Industry (2000-2002) and Special Secretary for the Information Society (2002-2004), where he was particularly involved in the design and implementation of operational programmes for industry and the Information Society.

Within the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory (LIEE) of the School of Chemical Engineering of the NTUA, he has been, since 1995, the scientific leader of two interdisciplinary research groups. The first group is active in the scientific area of “innovation studies” while the second group is engaged in “Technological, Economic and Strategic Analysis of the Information Society” (INFOSTRAG).

As part of the activities of the HEAO, he is a member of the Scientific and Management Committee of the large-scale research project AEGIS on Advancing Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Economic Growth and Social Well- being in Europe, funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, which involves 23 research teams from the European Union, Russia, China and India. Within this research project he is the scientific leader of a large field study on knowledge-intensive start-ups created in 10 European countries in the first decade of the 21st century. He is also the scientific leader of the project ‘Research in Greek enterprises to predict changes in regional production systems and local labour markets’ and of the ‘Strategic Study on Human Resource Development and Innovative Entrepreneurship’.

He was also the scientific leader of three major European research projects on socio-economic research on technology and innovation: the Science and Technology Policies towards Research Joint Ventures (STEP TO RJVs), Knowledge Flows in European Industry (KNOW) and The Emergence of New Industrial Activities (TENIA), as well as the scientific leader of EBEO/EMP in two other related European projects: the European Biotechnology Innovation Systems (EBIS) and Economy and Technology (MACROTECH). He has also been particularly involved in a number of studies on the engineering labour market.

He is also a special scientific advisor to the Central Union of Greek Municipalities (KEDE) for the formulation and implementation of a strategy for the use of Information and Communication Technologies by local government. He is also the scientific manager of the annual seminar of the INFOSTRAG research group on the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy.

He teaches, at the NTUA, at undergraduate level, courses in economics and management, innovation and entrepreneurship for engineers and in two postgraduate programmes: a) in the European Studies of Society, Science and Technology Master Programme (Public Policies and Business Strategies for Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation) and b) in the Athens MBA/ joint NTUA-OPA postgraduate programme (Industrial Policy and International Competitiveness).

He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University and the SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research Unit) at the University of Sussex.

He has served as Secretary General for Industry (2000-2002) and as Special Secretary for the Information Society (2002-2004), and also worked as an expert for the National Telecommunications Commission (1996-1999). He has participated in many high-level expert committees of the European Commission of DG Research and Innovation, DG Enterprise and Industry, DG Information Society and DG Internal Market & Financial Services as well as in similar committees in Greece, such as the scientific committee on “The Future of Greek Industry” (1993-1997) and the group that drafted the “Report on Competitiveness and Industrial Strategy in Greece (1997)”. He was also responsible for the team that drafted the ‘Report on the Competitiveness of the Greek Economy’ in 2001.

He has also worked in Greek industry in the design and implementation of industrial plants and projects (1976-1982).

He has co-authored and edited two books in English [a) European Collaboration in Research and Development: Business Strategy and Public Policy, Elgar, 2004 and b) Knowledge Flows in European Industry, Routledge, 2006] and eight books in Greek and has published – alone or in collaboration – 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Among others, he has published scientific papers in the following international journals: Industrial and Corporate Change, Technovation, Science and Public Policy, European Management Journal, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Journal of Technology Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Business Strategy Review, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, European Journal of Education, International Journal of Project Management, European Journal of Operational Research, South European Society and Politics, Energy – the international journal, International Journal of Energy Systems, Journal of Modern Hellenism, etc. He has also published about 100 papers in proceedings of international and Greek conferences.