Innovathens

Inside Technopolis City of Athens, the most recognizable place of Athens with more than 1.000.000 visitors per year.
The Hub of Innovation & Entrepreneurship of Technopolis City of Athens:
-was launched in May 2014, after the transformation of an old Gasholder into a fully operational, highly equipped, vibrant, open space
-is a collaboration of Technopolis with Athens Σynergies, 6 entrepreneurial associations listing more than 350 of the most innovative and extroverted business of Athens
-is sponsored financially & supported technologically by Samsung Electronics Hellas.
The key objectives of INNOVATHENS seek to:
- Create sustainable technical and organizational preconditions (physical and digital space) to attract innovative ideas and new groups or entrepreneurs
- Provide open innovation services of high added value to the start-up community
- Encourage joint projects promoting the diversification economic activity with the exploitation of ICT solutions
- Network with ecosystems, funding opportunities within and outside Greece, capacity building
Adressed audience:
Young people of the City of Athens, and beyond, who have the ambition to create an innovative enterprise
Individuals and/or working groups, which already have dared their first entrepreneural attempts
Groups of students and/or graduates with creative new ideas who intent to tranform them to sustainable businesses
Enterprises being in the establishing phase
Innovative enterprises wanting to develop their business model and enter the global market