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    Strategic Intelligence

    Applications which support information mastering. They are structured according to business intelligence principles, and include data collection, data analysis, and data dissemination modules, enabling the provision of market and technology watch services.

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    Technology Transfer

    Applications that support technology brokering and collaboration between academia and businesses. A wide range of services are provided, including technology training, technology matching, and online consulting at different phases of technology exploitation.

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    Collaborative Innovation

    Collaborative innovation software enables a step-by-step solution of different innovation related problems. It may be used to resolve new product development problems, spin-off and new company creation, training, and any problem which may take a step-wise solution.

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    Digital Cities and Online Marketing

    Applications which support the creation of digital cities through the provision of online services in various fields, such as e-government, e-education, e-promotion, e-business. Applications incorporate Virtual tours, e-Markets, and e-Government.

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  INTELSPACE S.A.

  INTELSPACE offers engineering, IT, and consulting services in the field of intelligent / smart cities. The company specializes in the design and development of physical spaces and virtual environments sustaining key knowledge and innovation processes of intelligent cities, such as strategic intelligence, technology transfer networks, collaborative innovation, and online marketing and product promotion.

  Intelligent cities have the power to integrate three critical dimensions of urban development: creative populations and knowledge-intensive businesses and clusters; institutions for cooperation in knowledge and innovation enabling to acquire, adapt, and advance knowledge and know-how; broadband infrastructure, digital spaces, and e-services for online collaboration and citizens participation.

  INTELSPACE working with interdisciplinary teams brings together expertise in the above fields of city development and planning, knowledge and innovation management, and information and communication technologies.

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    INTELSPACE Innovation Technologies S.A. and URENIO Research of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki form a group of organizations working together on projects dealing with innovation ecosystems, innovation policy and strategy development, and planning for intelligent / smart cities. INTELSPACE was founded in 2007 as spin-off company of URENIO with a focus on intelligent / smart cities.

    INTELSPACE is working with an international network of innovation consultants, IT experts, and academics from the European Union and the US and offers a wide range of services dealing with the creation of physical, institutional, and digital environments for innovation.

    The expertise of the company is on (1) planning and governance of intelligent cities, intelligent districts, and clusters, (2) the design and development of applications and solutions for smart cities, (3) innovation strategy and management of innovation, and (4) the design and development of web-based applications for collaborative innovation, collective intelligence, technology transfer, product marketing and promotion.

    INTELSPACE is developing also IT applications and web platforms that sustain key innovation processes, such as scan for the best available technology, improve learning and technology absorption, collaborative design and development of products, user involvement in the innovation process, design and development of online marketplaces. The company has created a portfolio of solutions for intelligent cities, mainly in the fields of the innovation economy and transparent governance, which are open source and freely available from the Github.

    Main areas of services provision are:

    • Innovation systems analysis, assessment, and strategy, including: Strategic planning for knowledge-based development. Management of regional systems of innovation. Regional innovation policy design and strategy. Smart specialisation strategies for research and innovation (RIS3). Innovation strategy assessment. Territorial strategic intelligence and place-based open innovation platforms. Training on innovation management. Measuring and benchmarking of innovation performance.
    • Intelligent cities development and planning, including: Intelligent city / smart city strategies. Design and development of intelligent clusters and districts. Smart city governance, sustainability and business models. Smart city applications, mainly open source, for (i) the innovation economy, (ii) the quality of life, (iii) transport, energy, and utilities, (iv) city governance and decision making. User-driven innovation ecosystems and web-based platforms for collective intelligence and collaborative innovation. Future Internet technologies, sensor networks, and urban embedded systems.

    Recent projects of the company deal with smart specialisation strategies across regions of the EU, the connection of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation with Digital Growth Strategies, and the assessment of policies for the transfer of innovative intelligent transport systems to the market, and the design of a next-generation science park in the UAE.

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    INTELSPACE offers consulting services and technology solutions for the development and management of innovation ecosystems and intelligent cities. Four main areas of services provision are:

    Intelligent city / smart city strategy and planning Includes a 9-steps process: SWOT or trends or futures analysis Challenges and setting of objectives Strategy design and intervention logic Action plan including best projects globally Flagship projects design Implementation, budget, and time schedule Setting the initial portfolio of cloud-based smart city applications (branding, marketplace, ImC, crowfunding) Design of governance and assessment system Web applications and analytics for measurement and impact assessment. Strategic planning is a must for the development of broadband infrastructure  and e-services in any smart city, offering enormous advantages in innovation outcomes and resource optimisation.

    Intelligent city applications design and development Applications and cloud-based solutions that cover the most important fields of smart city development. Applications sustaining an innovation-led economy based on intelligent clusters and districts Applications for improving the quality of life in cities Applications for transport, energy, utilities oprimisation and resource saving Smart city governance, sustainability and business models Also Training for installing and using open source smart city applications available on the ICOS repository Training for the design of smart city ontologies and applications.

    Innovation systems analysis and innovation strategy Systems of innovation mapping, survey, analysis Measuring and benchmarking of innovation performance Strategic planning for innovation-led regional development Research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) Planning for technology districts, technopoles, science and technology parks, innovation centers, and incubators Living Labs and user-driven innovation ecosystems development and management Assessment of innovation strategy impact.

    Design and development of web-based applications for innovation management Strategic intelligence platforms, which include data collection, processing, and analysis for market and technology watch Technology transfer platforms, which support networks for technology learning, brokering, collaboration between academia and businesses Collaborative innovation platforms, which enable user-driven innovation, distributed new product design and development, and living labs e-Marketplaces, for web-based product marketing and promotion, assessment scoreboards and benchmarking Innovation funding, crowdfunding in particular.

  Applications for intelligent cities

  INTELSPACE offers a series of applications for the development of smart and intelligent cities. They can be applied at different sectors or districts of cities and create collaborative frameworks for innovation, competitiveness, and governance.

  Applications for an innovative economy

  	Smart Marketplace SM is an application for the aggregation of commercial shops and other professionals located in an area of the city. It includes a series of subsystems, such as a business directory to present local businesses and professionals on the map; a virtual marketplace with e-shops where local storekeepers are able to create and present their stores using text, photos and video about their products; a coupon site containing promotional codes from local retailers and professionals; a review engine that assists customers in gathering shopping information, posting reviews and opinions about local shops. An implementaiton of the SM
  	City-Branding and Virtual-City-360 VC360 informs citizens and visitors about places and Points of Interest (POIs) in a city. Monuments, streets, squares, historical sites, recreation facilities in cities are usual POIs. Each one is presented through 360o panoramas, images and text. Users can also create new POIs or add content in an existing POIs. An interactive community map is created with the superposition and linkages among places and sites. VC360 offers the platform for city branding, promotion, and visitors attraction. An implementation of the VC360
  	Crowdfunding is a form of resources pooling and collaborative funding, enabling a community to select between alternative investments offered and to raise funds for those given the highest priority. With the rise of crowdfunding platforms it has become a mainstream method for gathering financial resources for social, community and creative projects. Crowdfunding complements and covers equity gaps in innovation funding, which are not covered by personal savings, venture capital, and other forms of equity funding. The application is based on Goteo open source solution modified by URENIO Research.
  	Technology Finding The TE is a web application for the valorisation of research and technology composed of three subsystems: a Repository Space, which gathers research and technology outcomes that can lead to new products, production processes, new services; a Valorisation Space, which helps drafting commercial exploitation plans for R&D and technologies, addressing issues of technical feasibility, intellectual property protection, market potential, and funding; and an Agreement Space, facilitating the setting of technology exploitation agreements and contracts. An implementation of the TEX
  	Living-Lab for New Product Development The LL application enables user-driven innovation and collaboration in the development and commercialisation of new products and services. It is based on three subsystems: a community of producers and user involvement in new product development; a technology watch space informing the community about latest trends in markets and technologies; and a virtual marketplace for the marketing and promotion of selected products from the community. An implementation of  the LL

  Applications for transparent governance

  	Improve-my-City An appliction for gathering citizens requests, complaints and suggestions and administer the response of authorities to reporting of non-emergency issues at any domain of the city life: environment, mobility, safety, crime, public space, buildings and monuments, and other. ImC allows citizens to report issues from their home using the web version, or while on the street using the mobile app (iOS & Android). Users may add comments, suggest solutions for improving the environment of their neighbourhood or add video and photos. More at the I-m-C website
  	Benchmarking The Benchmarking application enables the comparative assessment of territories, cities, organisations, technologies, and any other entity. A deeper understanding is achieved through carefully chosen indicators and metrics that allow for observing how features and properties are distributed into a population of reference and which is the relative position of an entity into this population. The added value of benchmarking are related to the understanding of the comparative position of an organisation and the margins for improvement. An implementation of BENCH
  	Visualisation This application enables the visualisation of key indicators and variables included in a dataset (budget, resources, capabilities, infrastructure, etc.). The application consists of five components, which offer the possibility to visualize main properties of the dataset: bar charts and pie charts that show trends and distributions; scatter-plots that reveal correlations between indicators; a node map which plots relationships among entities of the dataset; and a word cloud for the visual representation of content and text data. An implementation of VIS

  Applications for intelligent cities

  INTELSPACE offers a series of applications for the development of smart and intelligent cities. They can be applied at different sectors or districts of cities and create collaborative frameworks for innovation, competitiveness, and governance.

  Applications for an innovative economy

  	Smart Marketplace SM is an application for the aggregation of commercial shops and other professionals located in an area of the city. It includes a series of subsystems, such as a business directory to present local businesses and professionals on the map; a virtual marketplace with e-shops where local storekeepers are able to create and present their stores using text, photos and video about their products; a coupon site containing promotional codes from local retailers and professionals; a review engine that assists customers in gathering shopping information, posting reviews and opinions about local shops. An implementaiton of the SM
  	City-Branding and Virtual-City-360 VC360 informs citizens and visitors about places and Points of Interest (POIs) in a city. Monuments, streets, squares, historical sites, recreation facilities in cities are usual POIs. Each one is presented through 360o panoramas, images and text. Users can also create new POIs or add content in an existing POIs. An interactive community map is created with the superposition and linkages among places and sites. VC360 offers the platform for city branding, promotion, and visitors attraction. An implementation of the VC360
  	Crowdfunding is a form of resources pooling and collaborative funding, enabling a community to select between alternative investments offered and to raise funds for those given the highest priority. With the rise of crowdfunding platforms it has become a mainstream method for gathering financial resources for social, community and creative projects. Crowdfunding complements and covers equity gaps in innovation funding, which are not covered by personal savings, venture capital, and other forms of equity funding. The application is based on Goteo open source solution modified by URENIO Research.
  	Technology Finding The TE is a web application for the valorisation of research and technology composed of three subsystems: a Repository Space, which gathers research and technology outcomes that can lead to new products, production processes, new services; a Valorisation Space, which helps drafting commercial exploitation plans for R&D and technologies, addressing issues of technical feasibility, intellectual property protection, market potential, and funding; and an Agreement Space, facilitating the setting of technology exploitation agreements and contracts. An implementation of the TEX
  	Living-Lab for New Product Development The LL application enables user-driven innovation and collaboration in the development and commercialisation of new products and services. It is based on three subsystems: a community of producers and user involvement in new product development; a technology watch space informing the community about latest trends in markets and technologies; and a virtual marketplace for the marketing and promotion of selected products from the community. An implementation of  the LL

  Applications for transparent governance

  	Improve-my-City An appliction for gathering citizens requests, complaints and suggestions and administer the response of authorities to reporting of non-emergency issues at any domain of the city life: environment, mobility, safety, crime, public space, buildings and monuments, and other. ImC allows citizens to report issues from their home using the web version, or while on the street using the mobile app (iOS & Android). Users may add comments, suggest solutions for improving the environment of their neighbourhood or add video and photos. More at the I-m-C website
  	Benchmarking The Benchmarking application enables the comparative assessment of territories, cities, organisations, technologies, and any other entity. A deeper understanding is achieved through carefully chosen indicators and metrics that allow for observing how features and properties are distributed into a population of reference and which is the relative position of an entity into this population. The added value of benchmarking are related to the understanding of the comparative position of an organisation and the margins for improvement. An implementation of BENCH
  	Visualisation This application enables the visualisation of key indicators and variables included in a dataset (budget, resources, capabilities, infrastructure, etc.). The application consists of five components, which offer the possibility to visualize main properties of the dataset: bar charts and pie charts that show trends and distributions; scatter-plots that reveal correlations between indicators; a node map which plots relationships among entities of the dataset; and a word cloud for the visual representation of content and text data. An implementation of VIS

  A collection of a few recent projects

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  	NEWBITS The overall objective of the NEWBITS project is to provide with a deep understanding of the changing conditions and dynamics that affect or influence innovations in Intelligent Transport Systems. New KPIs will be designed to feed reactive and network oriented value creation propositions that improve the collaborative decision-making process across the various stakeholders. This improved value definition will minimize the failures inherent to ITS innovation diffusion, evolve current business models, and identify effective incentives to accelerate ITS innovations deployment. The project is funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, under the Grant Agreement number 723974, H2020-MG-2016-2017/H2020-MG-2016-SingleStage-RTD-MOVE Website of the NEWBITS Project
  	ONLINE S3 The project is about the creation of an online platform containing a collection of roadmaps, tools, and databases that may assist and facilitate the elaboration of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3). The project is funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, ISSI-2015-1. ONLINE S3 will offer guidance on implementing the RIS3 strategies, notably in terms of methods for managing delivery through  ‘multi-actor measures’ and integrate online evaluation and monitoring tools that enable an enhanced ‘real-time’ tracking of policy effectiveness. The platform supports the six steps of RIS3: analysis, governance, vision, priority setting, action plan, and monitoring and assessment. Website of the ONLINE S3 Project
  	INNOLAB The project is about the creation of a Regional Innovation Ecosystem Platform that helps universities to understand and develop further their innovation ecosystem. The platform consists of two subsystems, a content management system for the mapping of actors and intelligent analytics tools which visualize the innovation ecosystem. INTELSPACE developed the analytics which visualize relationships, trends and activities with bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, word cloud, and the node map. Website of the Innolab Platform InnoLab is a Tempus project
  	T-TRANS The project aims at providing information on innovation mechanisms for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), facilitating the transfer of innovative ITS products and services to the market. The project addresses the challenge of transferring to market technologies with a significant potential for improvement, both in terms of efficiency and costs. T-TRANS focuses on “Innovation Chains” operating in sets of technologies, products and applications. “Innovation chains” are paths for bringing technologies to the market. Website of Ttrans T-Trans is a project of 7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAM
  	RIS3 ASSESSMENT FOR GREECE The aim of these assignments which cover the period 2012-2016  is to conduct an expert assessment and provide policy advice on the preparation of the Greek national and regional strategies for smart specialisation. Main focus of assessment is the identification of research and technology areas for smart specialisation, the governance of S3 under principles of open innovation, the efficiency of innovation delivery mechanisms, platforms and clusters support policy, and next generation broadband networks and ICTs. Website of RIS3 Platform RIS3 assessment is a project of the European Commission DG REGIO
  	INNOVATION STRATEGY OF METROPOLITAN THESSALONIKI The strategy was a pilot action of the project Asviloc Plus, in which regional development agencies act as facilitators to innovation policy makers and contributors to creation of innovative policies and programmes. The strategy for Thessaloniki was elaborated bottom-up from an Innovation Forum established for this purpose in line with principles of smart specialisation and EU 2020 smart growth strategies. It includes choices for specialization and proposals for the creation of innovation institutions and open innovation platforms. Website of Asviloc Plus Asviloc Plus is a project of SOUTH EAST EUROPE PROGRAM
  	INNOSEE The InnoSee project contributes to the development of key competences and harmonisation of educational standards in the field of research-driven clusters (RDC). The project offers learning modules for the development of RDCs, such as strategic planning; project management; market intelligence; technology transfer; open innovation; international networking and co-operation; IPR and patenting; innovation funding. Website of Innosee INNOSEE is a project of LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM
  	MEDLAB The Living Lab “ICT for Smart Cities and Green Buildings” is a pilot of the MEDLAB project. The objective of the pilot is to create (1) a Living Lab for ICT, Smart Cities and Green Buildings, and (2) a virtual marketplace for the promotion to global markets of green property and green homes located in the Mediterranean regions of France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Website of the pilot Website of Medlab MEDLAB is a project of MED PROGRAM

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  	NEWBITS Project website is online at www.newbits-project.eu. You may click the link to get more info about the project and be updated on the latest developments of the NEWBITS project.
  	A technical meeting of ONLINE S3 took place in Thessaloniki on 26 October 2016. The objectives of the Technical meeting were: elaborate an integrated approach to WP1, WP2, WP3, and WP4; define exact timelines of WP2, WP3 and WP4; agree on the allocation of work among partners; select content management system and technologies of the platform and the applications; start as early as possible the development of applications and the platform to achieve the milestone 4 of an operational web environment by the start of the pilot exercises.
  	In the 12th and 13th of October 2016 the kick-off meeting of the NEWBITS project took place at The Simulation Centre of the Technocentre in Coventry, UK. The NEWBITS project (New Business models for Intelligent Transport Systems) has been approved for funding in the frame of the European Research Programme «Horizon 2020». The project consortium consists of 9 partners, coming from 6 different EU countries (UK, NL, GR, DE, SP, IT) including national ITS association and EU level innovation networks, C-ITS service providers operating world-wide, as well as research based institutions and specialized consultancies involved in the fields of Transport and ITS, marketing research, policy analysis and innovation management. INTELSPACE SA as one of the consortium partners participated in the kick off meeting with two experts.
  	INTELSPACE participates in the consortium of the Horizon 2020 project NEWBITS. It is a 30-months project on business models accelerating innovations in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). NEWBITS applies a business ecosystem approach for ITS which acknowledges the context of economics of networks by introducing a higher conceptual level than that of individual organizations, focusing at how organizations create value within the context of the networks in which they interoperate. The NEWBITS consortium will design and implement a holistic intelligence process that gathers key information and indicators on market, demand, stakeholder’s involvement and innovation diffusion for ITS.
  	Η Intelspace AE εστιάζει τις δραστηριότητες της (1) στην ανάπτυξη και διακυβέρνηση ευφυών πόλεων, (2) στο σχεδιασμό και στην ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών για ευφυείς πόλεις, (3) στις στρατηγικές καινοτομίας, και (4) στην ανάπτυξη ψηφιακών εφαρμογών για τη διαχείριση καινοτομίας. Ο ισολογισμός 31.12.2015 είναι διαθέσιμος εδώ.
  	INTELSPACE together with a consortium of 12 partners is starting the Horizon 2020 project ONLINE S3. The aim of the project is to design and develop an e-policy platform, augmented with a toolbox of applications and online services, able to assist national and regional authorities in the EU to elaborate their smart specialisation agenda. The platform will leverage existing methodologies, initiatives and tools developed by the EC for the RIS3 strategy and augment them with additional applications, roadmaps and databases to facilitate and automate the design and implementation of RIS3 strategies across Europe.
  	Intelspace, Infalia, and Alamat International are working for the customisation of the Improve-My-City Platform (http://www.improve-my-city.com/) to be used by the city of Riyahd in Saudi Arabia. The project includes web, Android and iOS applications. Installation, training, and seamless operation of the Platform will be provided.Alamat Int will provide the required local information in order for the platform to be adapted in Saudi Arabia and especially Riyadh conditions.
  	Intelspace SA started a collaboration with Bir Ventures Ltd, USA, for the development of a Science Park in the United Arab Emirates. The UAE University Science Park aims to create a globally recognized innovation ecosystem and enhance the diversification of the UAE economy. The Science Park will connect physical infrastructure, human skills, and advanced digital services and setup a borderless environment for scientific research, commercialization of innovation, technology-led start-ups, and training business leaders of tomorrow.
  	Η Intelspace AE εστιάζει τις δραστηριότητες της (1) στην ανάπτυξη και διακυβέρνηση ευφυών πόλεων, (2) στο σχεδιασμό και στην ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών για ευφυείς πόλεις, (3) στις στρατηγικές καινοτομίας, και (4) στην ανάπτυξη ψηφιακών εφαρμογών για τη διαχείριση καινοτομίας. Ο ισολογισμός 31.12.2014 είναι διαθέσιμος εδώ.
  	The Coordination and Support Action entitled “Enhancing the transfer of Intelligent Transportation System innovations to the market (T-TRANS)” concluded in November with the organization of a final event. Between September 2012 and November 2014, a team of experts in the innovation chain for all the transport modes, from 9 organizations of 7 EU countries, including universities, research centres, companies and associations, studied the innovation mechanisms for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and identified best practices and guidelines for upbringing the related innovative products and services to the market. More: T-TRANS_PressRelease_EN_Dec14
  	The final event for the presentation of the T-TRANS project will take place at UAB-CASA CONVALESCÈNCIA (Sant Antoni Mª Claret, 171 – 08041 Barcelona – Spain) on November 4th, 2014.T-TRANS, “Enhancing the transfer of Intelligent Transportation System innovations to the market” is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Transport Programme. The main objective of the project is to gain a better understanding of the market drivers and barriers for ITS innovation.
  	Η Intelspace AE εστιάζει τις δραστηριότητες της στην ανάπτυξη τεχνολογιών στα πεδία (1) της διαχείρισης οικοσυστημάτων καινοτομίας, (2) των ψηφιακών εφαρμογών διαχείρισης καινοτομίας, και (3) των ψηφιακών και ευφυών πόλεων. Ο ισολογισμός 31.12.2013 είναι διαθέσιμος εδώ.
  	The final conference of INNOSEE, a Leonardo Da Vinci project of the European Commission, will be held on 13 September 2013 in Sofia. The conference will discuss the finding of the project in terms of research clusters training needs and present the web-based platform to support training in research driven clusters. Innosee final conference agenda: InnoSee Final Conference Agenda Innosee brochure: 2013-Innosee Brochure Innosee e-learning platform
  	The 4th partner meeting of INNOSEE was held at Empoli, Italy on 18 and 19 April 2013. The EACEA report and evaluation of the project by the Commission services was presented,  describing strengths and weaknesses, and the overall very good evaluation. Main focus of the meeting has been the development of the training content and the 8 training modules for research driven clusters under development.**A platform will be ready to directly connect the users with all recommended sections. The platform has been implemented with Moodle at http://moodle.innosee.euproject.org. After the completion of each module, a certificate will be released.
  	Η Intelspace AE εστιάζει τις δραστηριότητες της στην ανάπτυξη τεχνολογιών στα πεδία (1) της διαχείρισης οικοσυστημάτων καινοτομίας, (2) των ψηφιακών εφαρμογών διαχείρισης καινοτομίας, και (3) των ψηφιακών και ευφυών πόλεων. Ο ισολογισμός της Ανώνυμης Εταιρείας με την επωνυμία “Intelspace Τεχνολογίες Καινοτομίας ΑΕ” της 31.12.2012 είναι διαθέσιμος εδώ.
  	The TTRANS report “Intelligent Transport Systems state of the art assessment” aims at enhancing the understanding of the relationships among various ITS areas, applications and technologies by developing an ITS ontology which links ITS applications and technologies based on the study of the four case studies, and is general enough to be valid across different transport modes. In this sense this report provide a solid introduction to the four case studies selected at proposal stage, providing a comprehensive list of technologies and applications used by those, and assessing the technology readiness of the identified technologies.*You can download the T-TRANS ITS state-of-the-art assessment report here.
  	The first TTRANS workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems(ITS) will be held on June 26 in Thessaloniki Concert Hall. During the workshop experts from academia, research institutes, and enterprises will discuss ways to enhance the transfer of ITS innovations to the market. The 1st Workshop is co-organized with the TIPS project which objective is to facilitate the creation of new products and services from EU-funded R&D projects in the field of ITS.*You can download the agenda of the workshop from here: TTRANS-Thessaloniki_1st_workshop_agenda

  People

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  Main staff and management

  Christina Kakderi is actually Chairman and CEO of INTELSPACE. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia, Greece, a MSc from the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, and a PhD on innovation systems analysis from the Faculty of Engineering of  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has received a three-year fellowship from the State Scholarship Foundation and a fellowship from the Research Committee of AUTH; she has also attended a number of extended training courses at the DIMETIC (Strasbourg, Maastricht and Pecs) on innovation networks, policies and methodologies, and at the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute (in Rome) on spatial econometrics.

  Isidoros Passas holds a Bachelor of Engineering in computer systems from the School of Engineering of University of Sussex in U.K. and a MBA from the University of Sheffield in the U.K. His scientific interests are in the application of information technology in business processes of SMEs, business and cluster intelligence, innovation measurement and benchmarking, web 2.0 new product development, and website assessment. Isidoros has been a member of INTELSPACE Management Board till June 2014.

  Alexandros Komninos graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specialization area Electronic and Information Systems,  School of Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace. His master thesis was about an entity-based search algorithm and the corresponding web-based ranking application. His research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence, intelligent environments, machine2machine communication, and deep learning. In parallel to the  work at INTELSPACE he is preparing an Engineering Doctorate at the Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK.

  Maria Schoina is a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After graduation she has been working as a scientific researcher at the Universities of Thessaly and Western Macedonia, in a series of projects and studies in the fields of Regional Development, Innovation, Management of Technology and Tourism Development. Since 2000 she has been working at URENIO Research of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and since 2009 at INTELSPACE, participating in the implementation and management of projects in the field of innovation policy, commercialisation of technology and intelligent transportation systems.

  Margarita Angelidou is an urban development engineer (BSc, MSc) with a PhD in Smart Cities. She is a senior research officer with skills in research projects management and implementation, as well as writing project proposals. Since 2005 she has worked in business and academia in European and national research projects related with urban, socio-economic, technological/digital growth. Her research interests revolve around digital platforms for addressing urban problems, urban and social innovation and the knowledge society.

  Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos received a Master in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1992 and he has been working as a multimedia and web developer since 1993. He has an extensive experience with all parts of a Website building process and state-of-the-art technologies: Information Architecture, Web Design, Content Creation, Content Management Systems, Web 2.0 applications, and Usability Evaluation. He received a PhD from the Department of Urban and Regional Development and Planning, School of Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a thesis on digital cities.

  Elena Sefertzi received a Master in Sociology from the University of Sorbonne and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris. She has taught in the Department of Economic Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1985-89) and in the Technical University of Crete (1990-98). She has a rich professional experience in the management of innovation, technology transfer, and regional innovation strategies. Elena served as CEO of INTELSPACE till June 2014. Actually she is an associate professor at the Department of Spatial Planning and Development, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University.

  Nicos Komninos is co-founder of INTELSPACE and currently a professor of ‘Urban Development and Innovation Policy’ at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master’s Degree of Architect-Engineer from the Aristotle University and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His research interests are on ‘innovation ecosystems’ and ‘intelligent cities’ (virtual innovation environments, user-driven innovation, intelligent clusters and districts, strategies and governance, intelligent city ontologies, open source applications).

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