Energy Competence Center
The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) establish the Energy Competence Center, a spinoff company of research institutions and businesses in Greece that aims to support and promote innovation, entrepreneurship and technical competencies among enterprises that are operating in the energy sector – a fundamental pillar of the Greek economy.
Focus
Aim
The Energy Competence Center
strengthens
the link between academic research and entrepreneurship
and responds to an essential need for significant projects and investments in large-scale research infrastructure, focusing on energy planning that looks towards the future, creates new development perspectives and responds effectively to contemporary environmental challenges.
In particular, for the business sector
Towards technological
and digital transformation
The Energy Competence Center has set priorities focusing on the encouragement of transferring technological solutions and innovations in production processes, the orientation of companies to products and services of high added value, development of comparative advantages, the development of extrovert entrepreneurship and their further networking.
Αdditionally, an important goal is the training of companies’ staff for the acquisition of skills in industry with an emphasis on Industry 4.0.
Ventures
Activities
Joint use of shareholding partners’ facilities and equipment
exchange knowledge and expertise, networking, information dissemination and collaboration between enterprises and other organizations/bodies of the Energy Competence Center.
Encouraging transfer of technological solutions and innovations
to production processes and/or for the production/supply of products/services resulting from the development, adoption, and diffusion of new technologies to companies, to improve their competitiveness.
Staff training
for companies, aiming to the acquisition of relevant skills.
Implementation
of innovative research projects and the development of services/products, actions to promote innovation in domestic entrepreneurship.