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Research In Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RIE),

Overview

The RIE supports and promotes research that expands the understanding of the theory and practice of innovation.  The scope of research covers commercial entrepreneurship and the processes of creative thinking generating innovative practices across a wide spectrum of industry and social enterprise. We investigate and analyze processes that can assist any organization in tackling today’s critical challenges in managing innovation in a technology-driven, globally competitive business environment.

Our Vision
“Provide an environment to translate knowledge and innovation into creation of successful entrepreneurs.”

Our Mission
AIT’s RIE group aims at creating an ecosystem that will foster and support innovation and knowledge based entrepreneurship amongst the Greek ICT community leading to the creation of wealth and social value through successful ventures.

RIE Objectives

  • Empower creativity

Spread a culture of creative thinking to imagine ideas that radically challenge the status quo to create new value.

  • Stretch innovation capacity

Implement appropriate processes that bring new ideas to life. 

  • Adopt motivating systems

Develop noble organizations that are committed to purpose, compassion, diversity and greatness.

  • Produce innovation knights

Recruit, develop and retain the right mix of creative inventors and fearless innovators.

  • Offer Top-notch Business Research & Consulting

The Research In Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers consulting and evaluation services for innovators and entrepreneurs.
Personnel: Xenia Zouvelou, Gregory S. Yovanof
 

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Students' Views

“In considering different research and graduate education institutions, I was looking for a competitive interdisciplinary program built on information technology and networking. This is exactly what I found in MSIN program at AIT. The co-operation, understanding and willing assistance of the administrative staff, support the students to become even more functional members of the AIT community. The multicultural environment of AIT has also helped me to become more aware of other cultures, customs and beliefs.”

Siamak Azodolmolky, MSIN 2006, (Iran)

news list News & Announcements

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Carnegie Mellon program in Greece
2010-09-01

By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Carnegie Mellon University is suspending a masters program in Greece, citing the recession's effect on that country, but school president Jared Cohon said most of the university's campuses and programs outside Pittsburgh are thriving.

Psychology to make next generation Optical Networks “smarter”
2010-08-31

The concept of “cognition” is about to be applied to photonic
communication networks research (in the framework of EU project CHRON
that AIT participates), with the goal to improve the capabilities of the
“Future Internet”.

AIT joins the GreenTouch consortium
2010-08-27

AIT is proud to announce its membership to the GreenTouch initiative.

Αναγνώριση ΑΙΤ από Υπουργείο Παιδείας
2010-07-29

Το ΑΙΤ έλαβε μια από τις 30 άδειες λειτουργίας Κέντρων Μεταλυκειακής Εκπαίδευσης (ΚΕΜΕ) από το Υπουργείο Παιδείας Δια Βίου Μάθησης και Θρησκευμάτων.

AIT's Dr. A. Tzanakaki joins CHIST-ERA ERANET Scientific Advisory Board
2010-07-14

AIT Associate Professor Dr. A. Tzanakaki was elected at the Scientific Advisory Board of CHIST-ERA ERANET, a European Coordinated Research on Long term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net.
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