The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE, www.liee-ntua.gr), is an academic unit within the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. LIEE offers a high level of economic and managerial studies following a long tradition in the School that started already in the sixties. Today, LIEE is a well established and active research unit with more than 20 research fellows, with research focusing on several topics, including the study of innovation, research networks, knowledge flows, firm’s dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurship and international competitiveness, as well as the socioeconomic impact of technological development and globalization in different contexts. Staff combines strong scientific and research excellence with solid policy-making and -shaping background and experience. Specifically, the research activity of LIEE can be classified in the following areas
- Economic Analysis of Industrial, Innovative, and Technological Systems
- Economics and Policy of Energy and Environmental Systems
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
- Applied Statistical Methods and Computational Tools.
In all these areas LIEE is engaged in basic and applied research, in the framework of projects financed through research grants provided by the European Commission, the Greek government and the private sector. Over the last 35 years, LIEE has been extensively involved in a number of competitive EU research projects, starting with the 3rd Framework Program and continuing through to Horizon Europe. Its research activity focuses mainly on the field of socio-economic research related to innovation, technology and knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, having also participated in large competitive projects in the energy sector. In many of these projects, LIEE-NTUA played the role of coordinator. As a result, LIEE is the Greek team with the largest participation in European programs in this specific field of research. In addition, its presence is now expanding into new fields such as the techno-economic evaluation of the development of new technologies and innovative products, the protection of intellectual property (IP), the exploitation of research results – especially in the field of the circular economy, the development of appropriate business models in new or existing markets, and the process of entrepreneurial discovery.
Particular emphasis has been placed on the analysis, documentation, and formulation of evidence-based policies at the European, national, and sectoral levels, covering critical areas such as: industry, energy, technology, innovation, digital transformation, entrepreneurship, and the circular economy. This work is carried out at the European, national, sectoral, and regional levels. The emergence of these issues as a top priority in recent years, both internationally and nationally, has simultaneously opened new and dynamic fields of teaching and research.