The Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) successfully organized, on August 23 & 24, an intensive 12-hour training program on intellectual property issues, for a limited number of executives of innovative enterprises and institutions promoting innovation of the Region of Central Macedonia. A total number of 28 persons attended the two days seminar.

The seminar was implemented by the TCCI, in collaboration with PRAXI NETWORK, which is a unit of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) aiming at supporting innovation and technology transfer at national and European level.

The trainer, Mr. Konstantinos Vavekis, Director of PRAXI NETWORK and EQE Qualified European Patent Attorney, with extensive experience in the protection and exploitation of intellectual property focused on particularly critical topics such as the alternative ways of protecting industrial property and choosing the appropriate strategy, the economic valuation and commercial exploitation of industrial property, the design of innovation policies, the cooperation between Universities and Industry, etc.

By providing important theoretical knowledge, but also a lot of practical advice with references to real examples, the trainer has raised the keen interest of trainees, constantly motivating them to participate actively, exchanging views and asking questions. 

This seminar was implemented below the activity ‘’onsite training’’ on intellectual property issues for the partners, public authorities, innovation brokers, start-ups, young and women entrepreneurs, undertaken by the TCCI in the framework of its participation in the co-funded project IPMED (ENI CBC MED Program). Under the same activity the TCCI, in collaboration with PRAXI NETWORK and the other partners, Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO), Finanziaria Ligure per lo Sviluppo Economico (FILSE) and Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tunis (CCIT), has undertaken the organization of similar seminars in Jordan, Italy and Tunisia.