In particular, he participated in the Interventions section made on Tuesday, July 31 by representatives of businesses, institutions and research centers.
Mr. Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis, General Manager of SEKEE, presented the activities of the Association and its positions to strengthen the interconnection of research activity with business innovation.
In the discussion that followed, interventions were made by SEKEE, the role that can be played by the cooperative formations of businesses (clusters) and proposed to adopt a series of actions to connect and develop synergies between research Workshops and businesses.
SEKEE was represented by Mr. Giorgos Karantonis, General Secretary of the Board of Directors, Christos Georgopoulos, Member of the Board of Directors, Dimos Vatikiotis, Assoc. Board Member, Angelos Maglis, Facilitator of the Hellenic Mobile Cluster (HMC) and Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis, General Manager.
The National Research and Technology Council (ESET) is the highest advisory body of the state responsible for the formation and implementation of the national research, technology and innovation policy. The Council is appointed by the Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs and refers directly to it/him. The secretarial and administrative support of the Council is provided by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GGET). The National Research and Technology Council was established in May 2010 (with article 46 of Law 3848/2010). The President, the Vice-President and the members of the ESET were appointed by the Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs in September 2010. Its composition is as follows:
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Stamatios Krimizis, Honorary Director of Space Administration and Scientific Director of Johns Hopkins University, USA, President
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Georgios Chrousos, Professor and Director of the 1st Pediatric Clinic at the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vice President
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Konstantinos Dafermos, Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, USA, Member
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Ioannis Iliopoulos, Emeritus Director of Research, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Member
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Doros Theodorou, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Member
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Amedeo Odoni, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the Department of Aeronautics and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Member
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Aristides Patrinos, President of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. U.S.A. Member
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George Pavlakis, US Researcher, Member
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Artemis Simopoulou, President of the U.S. National Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Member
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Kevin Featherstone, Professor at the Foundation for the Studies of Modern Greece “Eleftherios Venizelos” of the London School of Economics and Political Science (L.S.E.) in London and director of the Hellenic Observatory at the L.S.E., Member
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Michalis Haliasos, Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Member
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