Athena High Technology Incubator

Gate2Growth event on stimulating innovative entrepreneurship

Nicosia, Cyprus - October 22, 2004. Athena High Technology Incubator announces its participation at a Gate2Growth event on stimuling innovative entrepreneurship held in Thesalloniki, Greece on the 20th of October 2004.

Phanos Pitiris, General Manager of the company, participated on the panel of "The South Eastern Innovation Environment in the EU - Competitive Strengths and Weaknesses", a top-level panel of regional and international experts who discussed good practices and challenges in fostering innovation, and to what extent European experience is relevant to the regional context.

Attendants at Gate2Growth events on stimulating innovative entrepreneurship have, among others, the opportunity to:

1. Discover and discuss local and European innovation policies, measures and programmes to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture capital

2. Learn about the Gate2Growth Initiative and its thematic networks and meet and discuss with regional, national and European contact points

3. Assess the local innovation environment in the European perspective

4. Get updated on best practices in the exploitation of research and technology development results

5. Meet local and international investors and policy makers

6. Network with peers

About Gate2Growth
Gate2Growth is the pan-European Business Platform for (a)Entrepreneurs seeking financing (b) Investors, (c) Technology Incubator Managers, (d) Knowledge Transfer Offices, (e) Academia in entrepreneurship, innovation and finance, (f) Innovative companies seeking expert service providers

Athena High Technology Incubator Ltd. (AHTI) is an international for profit business incubator with focus on seed and early stage companies in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). Through its infrastructure, provision of value added services, close ties with venture capitalists and partnerships with internationally acclaimed organizations, AHTI steers the tenant companies operationally and strategically so as to accelerate their development and drive them to sustained, profitable growth. For more information, please contact Svetlana Kalogera.