LIEE-NTUA participated in the36 International Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary PolityicalnEconomy (EAEPE)   held on 4-6 September 2024 in Bilbao, Spain, on the theme “Economics in a changing world. New perspectives to economic analysis and economic policy”.

See the detailed programme of the conference here

From the side of LIEE-NTUA, the Conference was attended by the Assistant Professor Emilia Protogerou, the Postdoctoral Researchers Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Petros Dimas, the PhD Candidate Dimitrios Stamopoulos, and the research associate of LIEE-NTUA and Assistant Professor of the University of Thessaloniki, Ioanna Castelli, who is also President of EAEPE, gave an introductory speech at the Conference.

More specifically, A. Protogerou and I. Castelli, coordinators of the research areas E2 “Entrepreneurship and Theory of the Firm” and E1 “Industrial Development and Policy” respectively, organized a series of sessions within the respective areas. More specifically, A. Protogerou organised 2 sessions, in which a total of 7 papers were presented, and I. Castelli organised with Lukasz Mamica 3 sessions, in which a total of 12 papers were presented. In addition, I. Castelli organised with Lukasz Mamica 2 special sessions on Green Industrial Transformation, in which a total of 8 papers were presented.

It is noted that the 37th EAEPE Conference will be organized by the LIEE-NTUA in Athens (at the premises of the NSEFET “Demokritos”) during the period 24-26 September 2025. In this context, during the closing of this year’s Conference, Emilia Protogerou gave an informative presentation to the Convenors.

The following is a detailed list of the sessions in which the members of LIEE-NTUA participated either by presenting research work or in the role of coordinator:

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

Chair: Glykeria Karagouni

• Rodrigo Bolliger, Bruno Brandão Fischer, Adriana Ferreira De Faria: Impact Assessment of Technology Parks in Brazil
• Aimilia Protogerou, Protogerou Aimilia, Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Petros Dimas, Yannis Caloghirou: Determinants of Investment in Intangible Assets: Evidence from Europe
• Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Aimilia Protogerou, Yannis Caloghirou: Digital Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study in Seven European Countries

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

Chair: Aimilia Protogerou

• Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Rethinking Value Chains and Raw Materials for a More Competitive Handicrafts Industry
• Marios Emmanouil, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Open Eco-Innovation in the Greek Dairy Sector: The Case of a Biofunctional Yogurt Dessert
• Marios Trigkas, Glykeria Karagouni: Wood Value Chain and Carbon Neutrality; a Challenge for the Wood Craft Sector
• Angeliki Tsameti, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas: Market Analysis of the Greek Chestnut: A Proposed Business Model for the Chestnut Flour

Research Area E1: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Samuele Bibi

• Beata Farkas, Christian Schweiger: Challenges of the Central European Manufacturing Core
• Ludwig Hehl: The Political Economy of Industrial Policies in Mexico and Turkey
• Rodrigo Lucena: The Conventions of Industrial Entrepreneurs During the Brazilian Government of President Dilma
• Eunyong-Cho: Challenge and Conversion: Kim Dae-Jung Administration in South Korea and Neo-Liberalism
• Ioanna Kastelli, Alysson Mazoni, Petros Dimas: Knowledge Generation and Sourcing in the Food and Beverage Sector

Research Area SEA: STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Chair: Ariel Wirkierman

• Facund Fora-Alcalde: International Productivity Leakages as a Cause of Underdevelopment
• Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Aimilia Protogerou: Participation and Positioning of Greek Sectors in Global Value Chains and Evolution of Their Trade Patterns
• Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona, Ariel Luis Wirkierman: Nearshoring, Global Value Chains’ Structure and Volatility
• Marta Fana, Davide Villani, Ariel Wirkierman: Complementarity of Occupations and Sectoral Relatedness: An Input-Output Perspective

Research Area GIT: GREEN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION: CHALLENGES IN TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES

Chair: Ioanna Kastelli

Discussants: Timan Altenburg, Joao Ferraz, Anais Voy-Gillis, Anita Pelle

• Tilman Altenburg: The Political Economy of Green Industrial Policy
• Joao Ferraz, Wilson Peres, Julia Torracca, Tatiana Fleming: Green Industrial Policies: Where from, Where to?
• Anais Voy-Gillis, Samuel Klebaner: Is the French Industrial Decarbonisation Policy an Industrial or Business Policy?
• Anita Pelle: The Nature and Scope of Interaction Between Policy-Making and International Business: The Case of the European Green Deal
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Professor A. Tsakanikas and LIEE-NTUA’s post-doctoral research fellow P. Dimas co-authored a policy brief titled “Leveraging EU industrial policy to reshape Greece’s productive model” on behalf of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and its Greek and European Economy Observatory.

The policy brief aims to explore and evaluate recent developments in industrial policy in the European Union, focusing on the ways in which they can be leveraged to the benefit of Greece’s productive transformation. In this context, it also presents and analyses some key points of the rather fragmented landscape of policies and strategies related to Greek industry, and maps out some future directions that are deemed necessary for the country to be able to exploit the momentum of European industrial policy to its advantage.

Read the policy brief here.

Also available in .pdf format for direct download here.

In the new podcast of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Angelos Tsakanikas, Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) – Director of the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA – Head of the NTUA Technology Transfer Office and Petros Dimas, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) – Associate Lecturer, Department of Economics and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, discuss with Odin Linardatou about Greece’s production model, the necessary reforms, industrial alliances and Major Projects of Common European Interest, the specificities of the Greek economy, the new EU programmes, SMEs and the brain drain.

For the podcast click here:  YouTube, soundcloud

A. Tsakanikas and P. Dimas write in BusinessDaily.gr about the developments in industrial policy at European level and how they can be used in the development of a national industrial strategy for the transformation of the country’s production model.

The article is available here.

Associate Professor Aggelos Tsakanikas and the postdoctoral researcher of LIEE-NTUA Petros Dimas participate in the online discussion of the Greek and European Economy Observatoty of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) entitled: “EU industrial policy 2.0”

Speakers:

Petros Dimas, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA.

Aggelos Tsakanikas, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA.

Nicholas Vonortas, Professor, George Washington University

Reinhilde Veugelers, Professor, Catholic University of Leuven

Coordinator

Manos Matsanganis, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan | Principal Researcher, ELIAMEP

You can view the invitation in English here and attend the conference here: