Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Openness, Mr. Kostas Fragogiannis, together with Deputy Minister for Development and Investments in charge of Research and Technology, Mr. Christos Dimas, will travel to the USA on a working visit from 11 to 19 December 2021.
The Deputy Ministers’ visit includes stops in Boston and San Francisco, where a series of meetings and contacts with distinguished scientists from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkley, USF, with businessmen and senior executives from the field of high technology, with representatives of national investment and innovation promotion agencies operating in the US, as well as with state officials have been scheduled.
The purpose of the visit is the presentation of the favourable conditions that have now been created in Greece to attract investment, the mobilization and utilization of prominent Greek scientists, academics and businessmen operating in the US so as to attract American companies to Greece but also the transfer of know-how by them.
The Deputy Ministers’ agenda also includes the establishment of a Greek national support body for Greek start-up companies in Silicon Valley, in the practice of most EU countries but also of the most developed and developing economies of the world.
The objectives of the visit to the USA were outlined by Deputy Ministers Mr. Kostas Fragogiannis and Christos Dimas in an article published in “TA NEA SAVVATOKYRIAKO” newspaper of December 4, 2021.