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- Tourism, culture, and creative industries
- Sustainable energy
- Environment and circular economy
- Materials, construction, and industry
- Transport and supply chain

Cooperation between the Greek government and Volkswagen for Astypalaia: The Greek Government and
the Volkswagen Group have agreed on a pioneering project to transform Astypalaia into the first smart
and green island in the Mediterranean, which will be energy autonomous.
Programme Research - Innovate 2021-2027” refers to businesses and the main objective of the action is
to link research and innovation with entrepreneurship and to enhance the competitiveness, productivity
and extroversion of enterprises towards international markets, with a view to the transition to quality
innovative entrepreneurship and the increase of domestic added value.

Elevate Greece: Elevate Greece is an initiative of the Hellenic Government, which aims to map start-ups
and support their development, with the ultimate goal of creating a strong innovation ecosystem.

The Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce and the Endeavor Greece are committed in actions trying
to stimulate participation of employees in innovation processes.

Some other interesting successful cases are particularly related to the academic world:
- ITE (Foundation for research and technology) in Crete, and EKETA (National centre of research &
technological development) in Thessaloniki, which both conduct research and produce
innovative products at an academic level.
- Plus Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ACEin) of the Athens University of Economics
and Business and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship ARCHIMEDES of the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens are supporting the implementation of innovation in
Greece.

Turkey
Research and development (R&D) activities and incentives for these activities in Turkey are regulated in
the Law No. 5746 on Supporting Research and Development Activities and the Implementation and Audit
Regulation on Supporting Research and Development Activities published based on this law. In the field
of research and development, which received special incentives with the Law No. 5746.
Techno-enterprise Capital support is given, which refers to the capital support made to encourage them
to transform their business ideas into enterprises with high added value and high potential to create
qualified employment, within the framework of a business plan that is approved to be supported by the
public administrations within the scope of the central government

Turkish Government has grant programs that support innovation, especially KOSGEB and TUBITAK TTGV
grants are more known. TUBITAK supports are for technology development zones in the incentives related
to this field. Under the name of Public Institutions Research and Development Projects Support Program
(KAMAG), TÜBİTAK supports basic research and due diligence projects developed by public institutions
and R&D projects aimed at establishing infrastructure.

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the
European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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