STEP-C: A center for the promotion of innovation & entrepreneurship

Innovation & Technology Transfer Advisor at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) / Science & Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C) since 2004. He has been involved in a number of different national and EU funded RDT projects related to Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Exploitation of Research Outcomes, Technology Transfer (TT) & Intellectual Property management (IP), Business Incubators, as well as with mobility of Greek and foreign researches issues.

Prof. Dimitrios Plexousakis is the director of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory of FORTH-ICS. He is also the Vice President of the Board of Directors of FORTH. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer […]

Dr. Iannis Talianidis is a Medical doctor, graduate of the Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest Hungary in 1981. He continued his post-graduate studies in the Department of Biochemistry of the same University, where he obtained his PhD degree in Biology. Between 1985 and 1987, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dept. of […]

Prof. George Kiriakidis is a Physicist graduate of the Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki and post-graduate studies at the Universities of Manchester, Salford, and Surrey, UK, who served as a full Prof. at the Physics Department of the Univ. of Crete, Greece from 1981 to 2017. In his career as a materials engineer, he founded and […]

Dr. Nikos Papandroulakis is the Research Director at the Institute of Marine Biology Biotechnology and Aquaculture, of HCMR (https://imbbc.hcmr.gr/user/npap/), since 2012. He is Member of the Sectorial Scientific Council of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology for Agricultural Production, Food, Food, Agro-biotechnology and Aquaculture (since 2014) and vice president (elected) of the Hellenic Aquaculture […]

Nora holds a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Crete and an MA in International and European Studies with a specialization in European Management and Politics (Jean Monnet Programme) from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.

George Prinianakis is an economist, graduated from the University of Piraeus. He worked as an Accountant in a number of companies. He is the manager of an accounting office providing first class bookkeeping services. He is a specialist in accounting, tax, labor and insurance and supports the creation and development of start-up companies with different […]

Katerina Kioumi is a student at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics of the University of Crete and she is currently an Internship Trainee at the Science & Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C).