On this episode of Sensible Areas, we met the individuals behind Corallia, a unit of the Athena analysis centre in Greece that brings collectively hi-tech clusters, enterprise incubators, and in depth entrepreneurship programmes. Corallia’s goal is to assist native companies and start-ups to develop from the bottom up, and attain the worldwide area.
Corallia works with greater than 500 revolutionary enterprises, and has established three excessive tech clusters, a sexy proposition for buyers, who've up to now pumped over 500 million euros of personal and overseas funding into the organisation.
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Sensible Areas - Corallia
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Supporting start-ups
Senior supervisor of Corallia, Nancy Liva, stated the aim of the corporate is to “join corporations of all sizes, universities, analysis facilities, enterprise angels and monetary establishments.
"Our position is to be a cluster facilitator and convey collectively all these actors so as to collaborate and develop their corporations.”
A method Corallia is facilitating enterprise progress, is by supporting STARTAB, an entrepreneurship programme which is designed for younger ‘start-uppers’. On the scheme, they've the chance to take part in seminars and get a mentor to foster their concepts and plans.
Komitis Stavros is a younger ‘start-upper’ who took half within the programme, and informed Euronews that earlier than he got here to STARTAB, he solely had a “basic concept” of what he needed to do with the enterprise, nevertheless the programme gave him a “extra particular concept within the duties that [he] must focus [his] power and time on.”
Accelerating companies
Corallia additionally helps numerous accelerator applications, together with the Eurobank-sponsored Enter Develop Go (EGG), probably the most profitable enterprise accelerator in Greece.
One startup that grew right here, for instance, is an automatic sensible farm that lets you develop salad indoors with out soil.
Corallia’s success
Between 2007 and 2020, the challenge, “Corallia Institution and Improvement of the Hellenic Expertise Clusters Initiative” obtained 36 million euros in European funding, and Corallia is now thought of one of many 15 finest UE-funded programmes in Europe.
However Corallia’s success may also be measured in different methods; it has gained a rating of awards, and was even nominated for the newest RegioStars Awards, having been shortlisted in 2009 within the class "Analysis, Technological Improvement and Innovation".
Christina Vassilopoulou, Supervisor of Corallia, informed Euronews that they assist the nation “deal with indicators like excessive expert employment, new patents, model names and industrial property rights together with new merchandise, new providers and new synergies.”
To offer a flavour of the wealthy number of companies Corallia helps, one profitable enterprise is SaMMY, a tech platform that brings a worldwide digital transformation to marinas and connects them with sea-travelers. By their app, sea travellers can reserve a mooring spot, guided by actual time knowledge about free areas in marinas based mostly on sensors.
Ioannis Kostopulos from SaMMY, defined that he plans to develop this innovation throughout Greece and around the globe, fulfilling Corallia’s aim of serving to Greek corporations to unfold their wings and tackle international markets.
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