{"id":54575,"date":"2026-01-30T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?post_type=events&#038;p=54575"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:03:07","slug":"diadiktyaki-syzitisi-me-thema-kainotomia-diethnopoiisi-kai-diaspora-sto-elliniko-oikosystima-neofyon-epicheiriseon","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/events\/innovation-internationalization-and-the-diaspora-in-the-greek-startup-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Online discussion: &#8220;Innovation, Internationalization and the Diaspora  in the Greek Startup Ecosystem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>In the early days of the long economic crisis in Greece, a new productive model began to emerge, with its epicenter the emerging startup ecosystem of the country. Since then a number of studies have mapped the evolution of the ecosystem, focusing mostly on funding, startup exits and macro level mappings of startuppers and their initiatives.<br \/>\nThis webinar will attempt a fresh perspective to the study of the Greek startup ecosystem, focusing on innovation, internationalization and the diaspora nexus, while also introducing a combined micro and macro approach. It opens with a presentation of recent research findings on the aforementioned theme from a micro level analysis (ELIAMEP Working paper 19\/11\/2025) on the outcomes and organization of a uniquely placed accelerator in the ecosystem.<br \/>\nThe ensuing, main body of the webinar will focus on a general appreciation of the present situation and the enrichment of future prospects for the innovation, internationalization, diaspora nexus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2FDtvFw6X4?si=bH90ry7hwUEka2tJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Remarks<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis<\/strong>, Professor Emerita, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB); Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP; principal investigator, co-author<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yannis Caloghirou<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of the National Technical University of Athens<br \/>\n<strong>Marios Dikaiakos<\/strong>, Professor of Computer Science, Director, Laboratory for Internet Computing Chair, Council for Entrepreneurship, University of Cyprus<br \/>\n<strong>Marina Hatsopoulos,<\/strong> Board Chair, Levitronix Technologies<br \/>\n<strong>Athanasios Kolokythas<\/strong>, M2 ETE (PhD Track) student, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE); co-author<br \/>\n<strong>Vassilis Papakonstantinou<\/strong>, vice-chairman, Start Smart South Eastern Europe; co-founder, COGNITOR AI<br \/>\n<strong>Jenny Vidali<\/strong>, MA, College of Europe; co-author<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Odin Linardatou<\/strong>, Head of Communications, ELIAMEP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held\u00a0<strong>online<\/strong>\u00a0in <strong>english<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Invitation_Webinar-Innovation_10.2.26_finalnew.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include a discussion on the related working paper authored by Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis, Jenny Vidali and Athanasios Kolokythas.\u00a0You can read the full paper\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Working-paper-Startups-134.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":54614,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[27],"eventscats":[63],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/54575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/54575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54613,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/54575\/revisions\/54613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=54575"},{"taxonomy":"eventscats","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventscats?post=54575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}