EuroCC@Greece will set up the mechanisms and interactions necessary to support technology transfer in Greece in terms of HPC know-how, applications, tools and mechanisms. It will support users and providers providing them with consulting in terms of best practices to get on the market and to establish business relationships and a valuable business around their respective products. It will also examine opportunities for putting into market mature technologies and ideas. The task will examine levels of interest (early adopters, mature, conservative) for related technologies and will propose actions and further steps.
EuroCC@Greece will support businesses through the following business facilitators:
The PRAXI Network, an established technology transfer organization with long-standing experience in assisting SMEs and research organisations throughout Greece to achieve cross-border technological cooperation. PRAXI is a distinct administrative unit operating within the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). It started out in 1991 as a partnership between FORTH and SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises with the mission to link industry with academia. This strategic alliance of the research and industrial world of Greece was reinforced four years later, when the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece (FING) joined the partnership.
Between 1995 and 2008, PRAXI Network was nominated by the European Commission as one of Europe’s Innovation Relay Centers (IRC) acting therefore as one of the main Greek stakeholders in the field of technological innovation and cross-border technological cooperation. In parallel and since 1999, the General Secretariat for Research & Technology in Greece appoints PRAXI Network as the National Contact Point (NCP) for the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development and currently Horizon 2020, rendering it an official entity for information and advisory support for EU-funded research programmes.
Since 2008, PRAXI Network provides innovation and technology transfer services, initially as a member and currently as coordinator of the Greek consortium of the Enterprise Europe Network, the largest network of integrated business support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
The Lefkippos Tech Park, founded by the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR Demokritos). Lefkippos offers business incubator and accelerator services that support innovative ideas within an academic collaborative environment from discovery to commercialization. Lefkippos Tech Park is housed within the Demokritos campus providing the guest companies with some unique research opportunities. The five Institutes of the Centre offer interdisciplinary, world-class research infrastructures that are accessible to users. State-of-the-art laboratories in exponential technologies such as Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and the Internet of Things are open to the enterprises housed at Lefkippos. Moreover productive synergies are encouraged and well funded collaborations with research groups in a variety of sectors where Demokritos maintains a strong world presence: Advanced Materials, Telecommunications, Life Sciences and Health, Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Safety, Security and Heritage Sciences. In addition unique, at the national level, infrastructure is also available in Nuclear Technology and Radioprotection. Companies at Lefkippos enjoy intense networking activities with funding organizations, VCs, other investors and large multinational corporations. In addition they receive support for their efforts in attracting EU and National research grants. Lefkippos is run by the Innovation Support Office of NCSR Demokritos.
