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In 2018, the Enterprise Europe
Network
marks
its
tenth
anniversary. To commemorate
this
milestone,
Network
partners across the world
will be celebrating alongside
some of the 2,6 million small
businesses that they have
helped to innovate and grow
internationally.
Embedded
in local business structures
and connected across the
globe, the Network's 600
partner
organisations
are
perfectly positioned to support
businesses across dozens of
sectors from every corner of
the EU.
Network advisers have been
supportingbusinesses insectors
from agriculture to artificial
intelligence
with
practical
advice and trusted connections.
Their unique combination of
local knowledge and global
reach has meant that thousands
of companies have been able
to access international markets
and grow their businesses
further and faster.
Enterprise Europe Network-
Hellas helps SMEs to innovate
and develop both within the
EU and beyond European
borders. EKT offers advanced
technological infrastructure and
has longexperience inEuropean
funding, Technology Transfer
and Innovation services. It is co-
ordinator of Enterprise Europe
Network-Hellas, the Greek node
of the largest support network
providing integrated services to
increase competitiveness based
on knowledge and innovation.
Another Greek research laboratory
has been selected to participate
in one of the largest and most
ambitious
European
research
projects, the Human Brain Project
(HBP). The lab in question is that of
Dr. Zoe Cournia at the Biomedical
Research Foundation, Academy of
Athens, which forward a proposal
for the HBP ‘Modeling Allosteric
Drugs’ call, in collaboration with
Professor Fr. Gervasio from UCL in
the UK.
The HBP, launched on 1st October
2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland,
is a flagship initiative of the
European Commission for Future
and
Emerging
Technologies
(FET)
co-ordinated
by
the
École
Polytechnique
Fédérale
de Lausanne and is one of the
two largest scientific projects
ever financed by the European
Union, employing approximately
500 scientists at more than 100
universities, hospitals and research
centres throughout Europe. Greece
is already participating with three
research labs, from the National
Capodistrian University of Athens,
Athens University of Economics
and Business and the Technical
University of Crete.
The share of Greek innovative
enterprises for the three-year
period 2014-2016 has reached
57.7%. This stands as an increase
of 6.7 percentage points in
comparison with the 2012-2014
period,accordingtothepreliminary
data published from the National
Documentation Centre’s (EKT)
official
statistical
survey
for
innovation in Greek enterprises.
The survey was conducted jointly
with
the
Hellenic
Statistical
Authority
(ELSTAT)
in
order
to
complete
the
European-
wide 2014-2016 round of the
Community Innovation Survey
(CIS). CIS measures innovation
and
innovative
activities
of
enterprises within the EU. In
Greece, the survey was based on
some 11,000 Greek enterprises
with 10 or more employees, in
various sectors of economic
activity. The statistical products
have been transmitted to Eurostat.
According to the results, 57.7%
of Greek innovative enterprises
implemented at least one of the
following types of innovation:
product
innovations,
process
innovations, organisational innova-
tions, marketing innovations. In
comparison with the two previous
three-year periods (2010-2012
and
2012-2014),
the
overall
rate has increased 6.7 and 5.4
percentage points, respectively.
Highlights
57.7% of enterprises in Greece are
innovative
Enterprise Europe Network: 10 years
supporting small businesses with
international ambitions
New Greek participation in the
Human Brain
Project
for the acceleration of neuroscience,
computing and brain-related medicine
info
Enterprise Europe
Network
Enterprise Europe
info
"Main Indicators for
Innovation in Greek
enterprises 2014-2016"
(in Greek)
More than 430,000 Greek
cultural
heritage
records
are
now
available
on
SearchCulture.gr,
EKT’s
aggregator
for
cultural
content. Enriched with new
functionalities, SearchCulture.
gr offers better exploration of
the continuously increasing
number of cultural collections
to be discovered in it.
The aggregator has already
contributed 100,000 items
to Europeana, the European
digital library, augmenting
the
volume
of
Greek
cultural
content
available
to international audiences.
Also, new, intangible heritage
content has been added to
SearchCulture.gr, from the
collections of the Hellenic
Folklore
Research
Centre
Academy of Athens.
EKT’s goal for SearchCulture.
gr was to provide one single
point for aggregating all Greek
publicly funded digital cultural
content and to offer it up to
the public to enjoy and benefit
from.
Through SearchCulture.gr, EKT
aggregates national cultural
content, ensures continuous
access to it and feeds it to
Europeana, thus increasing
its findability, reuse and
the international reach of
quality Greek digital content.
In
addition,
organizations
which feed their content to
SearchCulture.gr can ensure
its long-term preservation
by depositing it in EKT’s
Preservation Service.
SearchCulture.gr:
Boosting Greek cul-
tural heritage in the public digital space
info
EKT’s aggregator for
cultural content
info
Cournia Lab
