The 8th Mobile Connected World Conference, held on Wednesday 30 May 2018 at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, was a great success, with the general title “Mobility: from Smart to Intelligent”.
The Mobile Connected World Conference was again attended by executives from the Telecom and IT market, manufacturers of mobile devices, technological equipment and wireless infrastructure, business software development companies, financial institutions, technology investors, web and app developers, members of the academic community and representatives of start-up entrepreneurship.
The conference was opened by Vasiliki Gogou from the office of the President of EETT and Kostas Haniotis, President of SEKEE.
The conference analysed the following four sections:
Session 1: Transforming the User Experience
Session 2: Mobility makes business go ’round
Session 3: Next-Gen Mobile Ecosystem
Session 4: Smart Cities, Intelligent Societies!
Moreover, in the context of the conference, the In*vent ICT programme was presented in a parallel session, which is an initiative of the innovation and entrepreneurship node EPI.noo of EPISY/NTUA and the organization Industry Disruptors Game Changers, designed and implemented with the assistance of the Association of Mobile Telephony Companies, designed to develop start-up entrepreneurship and a new generation of technological development, with the creation of new and sustainable businesses. The presentation was given by the Project Manager of InventICT, Evangelos Siokas, and the parallel session was moderated by Mr. Yannis Kalogirou, Professor of NTUA, and member of the InventICT Scientific Board. Teams graduating from the first cycle of the programme also spoke, and there was a discussion on the role of cooperation between universities and research centres and businesses in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector.
At the same time, a series of thematic workshops presented by specialized speakers and professionals in the field covered specialized aspects of App Development, Mobile Marketing, etc., offering a useful experience to the participants.
As every year, this year’s event was the Mobile & Connected Awards, organized with the help of MyPhone.gr, the largest Greek forum for mobile devices in Greece, and aim to reward the best mobile devices of the year, as well as the best applications, mobile business and IoT implementations.
Members of the NTUA Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA Associate Professor Angelos Tsakanikas, Dr. Evangelos Siokas and Georgios Siokas published a scientific article entitled “Implementing smart city strategies in Greece: appetite for success” in the scientific journal Cities. For more information about the article click here*.
For citation as a bibliography:
Siokas, G., Tsakanikas, A. and Siokas, E., 2020. Implementing smart city strategies in Greece: Appetite for success. Cities, 108, p.102938.
*Free access until 25 November 2020
Recognition of the research activity of LIEE
NTUA Professor Yannis Kalogirou, NTUA Assistant Professor Angelos Tsakanikas and the coordinator of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Dr. Ioanna Kastelli, members of the research team of the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens, signed in 2002 the article “Internal capabilities and external knowledge sources: complements or substitutes for innovative performance?” which was published in the scientific journal Technovation in January 2004.
This article has now managed to exceed the number of 1000 citations according to the Google Scholar research platform, surpassing the thousand mark and demonstrating in the best possible way both the impact and the longevity of the Laboratory’s research performance.
The abstract of the article follows:
This paper attempts to investigate the extent to which the existing internal capabilities of firms and their interaction with external sources of knowledge affect their level of innovativeness. Part of these capabilities result from a prolonged process of investment and knowledge accumulation within firms and form what has been addressed as the “absorptive capacity” of firms (Cohen & Levinthal, Admin. Sci Q., 35 (1990) 128). There are however other efforts that enhance the “original” definition of absorptive capacity and these relate to the way firms interact with their environment. Empirical data from an extensive survey that was carried out in seven European countries, namely Greece, Italy, Denmark, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, provides evidence for studying the relative effectiveness of specific mechanisms of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. The results show thatboth internal capabilities and openness towards knowledge sharing are important for upgrading innovative performance.
The full text of the scientific article can be found here (pdf file).