Creative collaboration between companies and research agencies for innovation and extroversion
A celebratory presentation event of the Hellenic Mobile Cluster (HMC) took place yesterday, Wednesday, April 3, 2013, in the large auditorium of E.K.E.F.E. “Democritus”.
The event was opened by the president of SEKEE, Kostis Papadimitrakopoulos, who pointed out that the development of the cluster is one of the founding goals of the Association and emphasized that HMC seeks to increase the international competitiveness of its members and to contribute to the development of new, innovative and Competitive products and services that will appeal to the global market, which is growing rapidly.
The Minister of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Kostis Hatzidakis, attended and addressed the event The Minister expressed his joy and satisfaction for the development of the activities of HMC and congratulated both the cooperating agencies and the Association of Mobile Applications Companies of Greece (SEKEE), on whose initiative this cooperative formation is being developed.
Mr. Hatzidakis praised the importance of this initiative because as he said: “It focuses on all the elements necessary to change the page of the Greek economy: on competitiveness at the global level, on the development of technology, on the cooperation of industry, universities, research centers, i.e. the so-called “triple helix”, in innovation and extroverted activity”.
Then, the Minister presented the government plans for the next NSRF programming period 2014-2020, where the emphasis is less on the execution of large infrastructure projects and more on the so-called “Soft Actions” sector and invited the SEEKE and the other bodies of innovative businesses to actively participate in its design.
The keynote speaker at the event was Philip Stankovski, coordinator of Sweden’s Cluster 55, who referred to the international experience and welcomed the Greek effort, proposing HMC to connect to the global network of innovations Clusters, utilizing common actions and synergies.
Finally, the floor was taken by Angelos Maglis, President and CEO of Atlantis Consulting SA, HMC’s facilitator, who presented the context of the cluster’s activity, emphasizing his purely business orientation and He clarified that his actions include educational workshops for its member companies, the design of joint research projects, development of collaborations with other clusters abroad, organization of joint missions and the presence of members of the cluster in international exhibitions abroad, etc.
This was followed by the presentation of the Greek Mission at the great International Digital Communication Exhibition Mobile World Congress MWC 2013, in Barcelona, by the General Director of SEKEE Yiannis K. Giannarakis and then there was a discussion on the subject:
“Triple propeller and development: The highlighting of synergies between research bodies, businesses and the state”, where the introductory speech was made by the Director and President of the Board of Directors of E.K.E.F.E. “Demokritos” Nikos Kanellopoulos, coordinated by Giorgos Karantonis, general secretary of SEKEE, and their participants: Giorgos Giaglis, representative of HMC academic bodies, Menelaos Daskalakis, General Secretary of Telecommunications & Post Office, Ioannis Papadopoulos, President of the Union of Greek Business Capital Companies and George Stephanopoulos, President of the Mobile Telephony Companies Association.
After the end of the discussion, SEKEE received the participants, who exchanged opinions and planned contacts with each other, making an appointment for the next events of the Hellenic Mobile Cluster.
>The Hellenic Mobile Cluster (HMC) is a pioneering for Greek data, collaborative formation of businesses, research and other organizations dealing with wireless and mobile technologies. It is developed at the initiative of the Association of Mobile Application Companies of Greece (SEKEE), with initial participants the companies – members of the Association and 13 research and academic bodies.
The Hellenic Mobile Cluster is at the core of a new dynamic sector of the Greek economy that is showing rapid growth rather than and against the crisis, with strong know-how and a strongly extroverted orientation. The field of applications and services on mobile devices presents very strong scientific, technological, research and innovative activity, both in Greece and abroad. In Greece there are more than 80 companies that employ considerable scientific potential and significantly increase their turnover every year. Around them emerges an entire ecosystem of entrepreneurs, researchers, consultants, investors, startups which surrounds the established and international companies as well as the new ones based on young scientists and creators.
The Hellenic Mobile Cluster seeks to increase the international competitiveness of its members, to stimulate the development of new, innovative and competitive products and services aimed at the global market, which in 2012 exceeded 1 billion devices. It also aims to create economies of scale and respond to current business, technological, economic and social challenges. A key factor for its success is the synergies that can be achieved between the various parts of the so-called triple helix (universities, research centers and industry).
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