Corallia with four of the most innovative Greek companies
at TAU Innovation Week in Israel
Tel Aviv, 06.05.2015: Corallia, with the support of the Israeli Embassy in Athens and the Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center StarTAU, is intensifying its actions to connect the Greek and Israeli startup scene and will accompany four of the most innovative Greek companies to this year's international week of innovation and entrepreneurship, TAU Innovation Week, taking place in Tel Aviv, May 7-10.
The Greek delegation consists of the companies Owiwi, Simple Apps, Meazon, Irida Labs, members of the gi, mi and si clusters, who will compete in the Tel Aviv Startup Challenge, exhibit their products at Startup Avenue in a specially designed Greek pavilion, attend practical seminars by international speakers and meet investors and potential clients to seek investment.
Corallia has also scheduled important meetings with high-ranking executives in Israel to showcase the Greek innovation ecosystem in order to lay the foundation for future collaborations and investments in our country. It is noted that two significant strategic investments by Israeli companies in Greek startups (Elxys Innovations, Antcor) of the mi-Cluster have already been completed.
The Greek mission is being organized following the visit of Israeli guru Oren Simanian, founder of StartTAU, to the InnoHubs managed by Corallia in Athens and Patras a few weeks ago.
TAU Innovation Week is an initiative of StarTAU and the Ramot Technology Dissemination Office. The core of the events is the conference aimed at the international start-up ecosystem with representatives of businesses, investors, academic and research organizations. The TAU InnovationConference is expected to be attended by over 3,500 participants.
About Corallia
Corallia is the first organization established in Greece for the organized and systematic management and development of innovation clusters with the aim of creating integrated productive and innovative ecosystems in which actors from specific sectors and regions of the country operate in a coordinated manner, where there is a pre-existing competitive advantage and export orientation. In the clusters it develops, Corallia has a coordinating role and in this context plans and implements support and promotion interventions for all innovation actors in the ecosystem, including industry, universities, research laboratories, central government and regional services, business angels and investment fund managers, financial institutions, infrastructure providers and business development services, with the aim of strengthening competitiveness and promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.
Today, Corallia has developed and coordinates three highly specialized technological Clusters in Greece, namely the mi-Cluster (Nano/Microelectronics Systems and Applications), the si-cluster (Space Technologies and Applications) and the gi-Cluster (Entertainment and Creative Technologies & Applications).
In addition, Corallia manages a network of three single-thematic innovation centers (InnoHubs) in strategic locations in the capital and the region: α1-innohub (Marousi, Athens, Attica), π1-innohub (Kastritsi, Patras, Western Greece) and α2-innohub (Marousi, Athens, Attica), where the head offices are also housed.
Corallia also implements a youth entrepreneurship acceleration program (YEAP) with a series of initiatives such as: the country's most important accelerator, egg - enterˑgrowˑgo, in collaboration with Eurobank, the Educational Trip with the student associations of Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Georgia Tech and UC San Diego, etc.
In the context of the extroversion of Greek entrepreneurship, the exchange of good practices and the promotion of collaborations with corresponding European and international initiatives, Corallia invests in international collaborations by establishing strong ties with important European policy-making bodies for the development of clusters and by actively participating in selected European projects.
The actions and projects implemented by Corallia are co-financed by Community funds, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), National funds, and private funds, within the framework of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (OP-II), the Regional Operational Programmes for the period 2007-2013, the Public Investment Programme, the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of the European Union, the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme, as well as donations from private and business initiatives. More information at https://www.corallia.org.
