Participation of the LIEE in this year’s DRUID conference, the most important international conference on the economics of innovation, technological change and related policies

  12/10/2021

The LIEE participates in the international conference DRUID, an international conference-institution for research on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change (DRUID21 Conference on Innovation and the Dynamics of Structural, Institutional and Geographic Change).This year, the conference will take place in Copenhagen between 18-20 October 2021. After the evaluation process was completed, it was decided that the LIEE will participate with three full scientific papers, which are shown below (free access to the link in the title).

  1. Dimas, P., Stamopoulos, D., and Tsakanikas, A.: “Where does the knowledge come from? A framework for tracing embodied knowledge in Global Value Chains

This paper provides a new methodological framework that integrates knowledge-based capital investments (intangible assets) into the existing productive linkages of the economy and allows to identify the diffusion of the associated embedded knowledge into products and services in global value chains.

2. Dimas, P., Caloghirou, Y., Tsakanikas, A and Vonortas, N..: “Business intangibles in global value chains: In search of export competitive advantage

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of intangible assets and participation in global value chains to the competitiveness of manufacturing sectors. The results suggest that intangibles contribute to the export performance and productivity of major industrial countries and highlight the importance of domestic intangibles compared to imported ones.

3.  Protogerou, Α., Kontolaimou., Α. and Caloghirou. Y: “Creative industries and resilience in times of crisis: The role of firm and entrepreneurial team characteristics”

This paper aims to identify firm and business group characteristics that may contribute to resilience in the creative industries (CI) under adverse economic conditions.

LIEE participates in the DRUID21 Conference at CBS

  10/10/2021

The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE NTUA) participated in the DRUID 2021 Conference, held at CBS in Copenhagen from 18 to 20 October 2021.

DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) was established in 1995 by CBS, AAU and SDU, with the aim of promoting the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship research in Denmark. Today, the DRUID Annual Conference is one of Europe’s largest management conferences and competes only with the US Academy of Management, attracting top innovation and entrepreneurship researchers from around the world. The 2021 conference was conducted with full in-person participation, with main research interests focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship.

LIEE’s participants were Aggelos Tsakanikas, Asc. Professor at NTUA and Director of LIEE, Aimilia Protogerou, senior researcher at LIEE NTUA, and PhD Candidates Petros Dimas and Dimitrios Stamopoulos. More specifically, the presented papers were (link in the title):

  1. Dimas, P., Stamopoulos, D., and Tsakanikas, A.: “Where does the knowledge come from? A framework for tracing embodied knowledge in Global Value Chains
  2. Dimas, P., Caloghirou, Y., Tsakanikas, A and Vonortas, N..: “Business intangibles in global value chains: In search of export competitive advantage
  3. Protogerou, Α., Kontolaimou., Α. and Caloghirou. Y.: “Creative industries and resilience in times of crisis: The role of firm and entrepreneurial team characteristics”

Aggelos Tsakanikas, Aimilia Protogerou, and Petros Dimas also participated as discussants in various thematic sessions. More information on DRUID and the conference program can be found here.

Participation of Professor Emeritus G. Kalogeros in the Ideas Circle Discussion on “Greece After the Pandemic”

  12/10/2020

For the fifth year, the IDEON CYCLUS organized its annual conference on the general theme “Greece After”. The conference “Greece After V” was held on 11-12 October 2021, at the Benaki Museum amphitheatre, with the central theme of the question: From crisis to normality or crisis as normality?