Gerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors: how startup-focused banks affect the innovation ecosystem globally (US, Israel, the Gulf countries), upcoming vulnerabilities to the US banking system and the US market crisis in the next six months, what start-ups and venture capitals should do to safeguard their deposits, why (or not) crypto-currency could become a backup system to centralise ..read more

Why is the socio-cultural safety mentality important to avoid needless accidents when we have available technologies? Why is the design of safety procedures important, even if we employ the latest cutting-edge technologies available? Why are socio-cultural safety mentality and the design, implementation and practice of safety procedures communicating vessels? The three Es: Engineering, Enforcement and Education. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/panagiota-pimenidou/message ..read more

Michael Dritsas, CEO of ‘Elevate Greece’, the Hellenic Republic’s national start-up platform and in-depth information resource on the Greek start-up Ecosystem, is the Head of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments under Research and Innovation. Mr Dritsas discusses: boosting organisational and corporate synergies to heighten Greece's innovation environment and knowledge transfer with institutional tools, balancing the attraction between excellent global entrepreneurial talents and start-ups and brain (re)gain, advancing the entrepreneurial spirit and mentality away ..read more

Why do we meet national and international competition in the world economy around start-ups? How did we get to the point that the old economy no longer serves the new one? And what are the reasons such a trend was set? Would the innovation approach toward science, engineering and technology serve research as we know or transform it into a new research type? Does innovating the economy and scientific, engineering and technology research meet the world's challenges? You can learn more about how to make the most out of talent in Science, Engineering and Technology Research at Catalyst-x.com. (T ..read more

The Deputy Minister of Development and Investments of the Hellenic Republic, under the Research and Innovation portfolio, Christos Dimas (PhD), discusses: · How "Elevate Greece" links start-ups with investors to accelerate nationally or internationally · Changing the mentality of academia toward innovation and entrepreneurship · Transforming structures within the institutions and public organisations to drive innovation · The sustainability of the Competence Centers beyond their initial support through EU and national funds to transfer innovative technologies · Attracting investments in resear ..read more

What is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent? Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals? Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are innovative science and engineering? Or are we missing deepening novelty through the personalised foresight for PhD candidates and holders in Science, Engineering and Technology to diffuse innovation? Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm ..read more

With Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss: if we are close to the end of the pandemic (or is it too soon to tell) and the new variants, the triple threat of COVID-19, flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), the present crisis in primary health care, lessons from the pandemic period to best design future health care systems and how a global recession could affect them, if vaccine hesitancy can be a majo ..read more

Professor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI): and Computational Science become predictive technologies, impacts on innovation, accelerates the energy sector, calls for re-approaching the value and purpose of the human mind. Professor Drikakis received twice the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK’s AWE Plc (Atomic Weapons Establishment Government ministry) in recognition of his contribu ..read more

With Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine: becomes a tool by AI: a tool that can be used for prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, predicts diseases before they happen, and transforming innovative research into products and services within the “circular” healthcare economy. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice messag ..read more

This is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “A Greek, young academic living and working abroad”. Our episodes in English will resume next Sunday, but more episodes in Greek will be introduced. We now meet Dimitris, three years later, going through two academic positions, now in his third one as an Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at the University of Dundee (Scotland, U.K.), which collaborates with the Centr ..read more