The “IN CONVERSATION” series (Chris Freeman Centenary Lecture Series), jointly organised by CRIS-IS.ORG & UNU-MERIT, portray prominent innovation scholars of the day in the form of intellectual-biographical interviews with other senior scholars.

In the 10th event Franco Malerba (Full Professor of Applied Economics. President of ICRIOS, Bocconi University) was interviewed by Richard Nelson (George Blumenthal Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs, Business, and Law at Columbia University) on 11 OCTOBER 2022 at 1 pm GMT | 2 pm – London | 9 am – New York | 10 am – Brazil | 2 pm – London | 3 pm – Denmark, France, Italy & South Africa | 4 pm – EAT | 6.30 pm – India | 9 pm China & Malaysia | 10 pm – Tokyo | 11 PM Canberra

The event was moderated by Sunil Mani (Centre for Development Studies)

Panel of discussants: Xiaolan Fu (University of Oxford), Nicholas Vonortas (George Washington University) and Yannis Caloghirou (NTUA)

You can watch the video of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbe-mafms8&ab_channel=CRIS1

Also, you can watch here the Opening Lecture by Richard Nelson (and his introduction by Yannis Caloghirou) in the 15th International Globelics Conference that took place in Athens on 11-13 October 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kr-8N5vuPQ

Structure of the program (2 hours split up as follows)

Brief intro to the program and introducing NELSON (by SUNIL) 5 minutes

i. Introductory remarks by NELSON and FRANCO is introduced (10 minutes) followed by a conversation between them as follows

ii. Formative years and major influences – (10 minutes)

iii. Contributions, Critique and weakness, Current work & future course – (35 minutes): starting from the important contributions of FRANCO, evolving towards a critical evaluation of his work. Then moving on to discussions on what next given the changing circumstances, how the theoretical contributions are relevant in current circumstances etc. It is a platform to convey what they want future generations to take from FRANCO and how they can further develop standing on the strong base that was created.

iv. Comment on Status of Innovation Economics and what next? – (10 minutes)

Some of the possible questions could be the following. However the speakers can shape it the way they want it to be!

• How did you end up doing research on innovation?
• What were your most important contributions to the field?
• To what degree have you engaged in teamwork and collective research?
• How do you see the relationship between economics and innovation studies?
• How do you see the role of innovation policy and innovation politics in development strategies?
• How do you see the future for innovation studies?
• At what level should we study innovation – micro, meso and macro?
• What kind of methods should we use to study innovation and economic development?
• What kind of advice would you like to give to young innovation scholars?
• What role can innovation play in meeting global challenges?

BREAK – 5 MINUTES

v. Discussion (1 hour): For the 1 hour discussion a panel of scholars [Xiaolan Fu, Nicholas Vonortas & Yannis Caloghrou] will ask questions or make comments on FRANCO’s work. After FRANCO’s response to them the forum will be open for questions from the general audience.

The INFOSTRAG team of the Laboratory Industrial and Energy Economics  of NTUA and the Cyclades Chamber are organizing the 17th annual Hermoupolis Seminar on the Information Society & the Knowledge Economy during 8-10 July 2022. The Seminar is organized in collaboration with the KAS Foundation Greece – Cyprus, the Open Technologies Organization – EEL/LAK and Break-Even Consulting.

The Seminar on the Information Society & Knowledge Economy has been held for three days every July since 2006 within the framework of the Ermoupolis Annual Seminars organized by the Historical Research Institute of the National Research Foundation (IIE/EIE) since 1984.

The thematics of this year’s seminar are the following:

• Research and innovation policies to enhance competitiveness and address contemporary social challenges
• Innovative Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship
• Digital policy and digital transformation of the economy and society
• The Development Perspective of Syros

See the Seminar Program here

The Seminar will take place in the Events Hall of the Cyclades Chamber but some of the presentations will be done remotely. There will be the possibility of interactive participation through the Webex platform and at the same time the Seminar will be broadcast live through the LIEE-NTUA YouTube channel.

The French Polytechnic of Compiègne in collaboration with the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics of the National Technical University of Athens, the Chamber of Cyclades, the University of the Aegean and the support of the Municipality of Syros – Ermoupoli, organize in Syros from 4 to 6 July 2022 the “EPOG Master Course Conference 2022”. This is the annual Conference of the distinguished European postgraduate program EPOG+ (Economic POlicies for the Global transition), which is coordinated by the French Polytechnic of Compiègne with the participation of 35 university institutions from Europe and the rest of the world.

EPOG+ falls under the category of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees supported by the European Commission and is specialized in economics and in particular in Economic Policies for the global transition with three major directions: a) Knowledge, Innovation and Digital Transition, b) Macroeconomics, Financial and Socio-economic Transition, c} Development, sustainable development and Ecological Transition. NTUA participates through the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics in the academic network of universities that are members of EPOG+.

The Conference will address issues related to the objectives of the program and global challenges related to growing economic and other inequalities, the major ecological crisis, rapid technological developments and the forced reorientation of economic growth and development towards sustainability and mitigation of inequalities. In addition, in conditions of uncertainty, it is imperative to review the basis of the economic policies in place that require the organic integration of the economic, social and environmental/ecological dimension and the formation of the corresponding capacities and skills for the planning and management of the necessary public policies.

The Conference will host approximately 150 delegates (academics, students and postgraduates, etc.) from Europe and the rest of the world and will conclude with a speech by the former Minister of Economics, Professor Nikos Christodoulakis as part of the session “Rethinking the global economy in turbulent times”.

You can find the posters of the three round tables of the Conference here.

Here are some highlights from the conference proceedings.

“In January 2020 we knew very little about COVID-19. Today, 10 vaccines are already available. This is α triumph of medical innovation and was made possible only by protecting intellectual property rights.”

Link to full article here 

The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) organized a successful workshop on women entrepreneurship for the fourth consecutive year in the context of the global initiative “Women Entrepreneurship Week 2022”.

This year’s workshop entitled “Knowledge-intensive Women Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges” was organized online on October 20, 2022. The event highlights various aspects of female entrepreneurship, focusing on innovative knowledge-intensive ventures. At the same time, it gives emphasis on significant challenges and emerging opportunities in the Greek business ecosystem.

The workshop was coordinated by Aimilia Protogerou, Assistant Prof. (elected) at the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (NTUA), and is available on LIEE-NTUA’s youtube channel.