Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Symela Touchtidou Ideas, like flowers, do not flourish on their own Cisco chose to create its next International Innovation Center in the city of Thessaloniki Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore… A total of 15 strategically located cities across the world. And the next stop [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Nikos Efthymiadis Building the infrastructure for mega-projects Thess INTEC is a 4th generation science & technology park, bringing together academia, research, high-tech industries, facilities and geopolitical location. It is the first large-scale science and technology infrastructure in Greece, and interest from international investors is already growing. [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Alexandra C. Vovolini Resilience breeds optimism The new season is at hand, and everyone is on the lookout for positive signs ahead; but to be honest with oneself, no easy optimism is in sight. In several fronts and on multiple levels, the best one [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 COMMENT by Anthony Kefalas Greece and the K-shaped Recovery The Greek economy is entering the autumn of 2020, weakened by the ten-year old crisis of 2010-2020, hobbled by the coronavirus, and threatened by Turkish irredentism. Heavily dependent on tourism and, generally, on human contact activities, the economy [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Planning in the most uncertain of times Will the Pissarides Report priorities and EU Recovery Fund financing allow for a real reboot of the Greek economy? In an unprecedented five-day long Summit in July, the EU decided to adopt a 3-year Recovery [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 Editor's Log by A. D. Papagiannidis Multi-layered uncertainty not for the faint-hearted A summer like no other in recent memory leaves back a promise of increased uncertainty for the rest of the year. The multi-layered character of this uncertainty makes for a challenging rest of 2020 [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Symela Touchtidou Finally, the day has come. Journalists and camera crews were invited to the ceremony of an iconic event: The beginning of precursory works at the old Athens international airport, the Hellinikon These should lead to the construction of the Metropolitan Pole of Hellinikon - Agios Kosmas, [...]
Mapping Greek entrepreneurship during the Crisis “Within the bleak and disheartening environment that prevailed in the Greek economy during the last decade, in a part of the business world, an ‘unexpected miracle’ is taking place: the emergence of a new entrepreneurial paradigm which focuses on innovation and exhibits a strong export orientation. If this paradigm [...]
Greek Business File, September-October 2020, No 127 by Dimitris Kontogiannis Increased cheap funding from the European Central Bank (ECB) has enabled Greek banks to deal with challenges to their profitability from the Covid-19 crisis. Borrowing from the ECB has rocketed to more than 14 percent of their banking assets in July from about 3.0 [...]
Greek Business File, June-July-August 2020, No 126 INTERVIEW OF MASTER OF WINE, KONSTANTINOS LAZARAKIS BY GEORGE VAILAKIS The potential out there is huge Wine has been the brain engager for Konstantinos Lazarakis, a graduate in mechanical engineering and jazz music. Awarded the title of Master of Wine, K. Lazarakis in this interview reveals that for almost 20 [...]
