CHAPTER 6 DEVELOPING E-SERVICES AND DATA COLLECTIONS TO IMPROVE THE BUSINES CLIMATE IN WESTERN GREECE Prόdromos Prodromídis,1a Athanasios Chymis,1b Fotini Economou,1c Alexandra Kontolaimou,1d Pantelis Lappas,2e Konstantinos Loizos,1f Vlassis Missos,1g Ioanna Reziti,1h Georgia Skintzi 1i Centre of Planning & Economic Research, Athens University of Economics & Business and EXUS AI Labs a pjprodr@kepe.gr, b achymis@kepe.gr, c feconom@kepe.gr, d alexandra.kontolaimou@kepe.gr, e pzlappas@aueb.gr, f kloizos@kepe.gr, g vmissos@kepe.gr, h ireziti@kepe.gr, i gskintzi@kepe.gr 1
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The chapter focuses on the development of both electronic government-to-business services and an on-line observatory as means to further entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) and, thus, improve the business climate in Western Greece. More specifically, it describes (i) eleven services employed around the world to promote E&I, which are missing in Western Greece, and (ii) an on-line system for collecting and presenting official statistics and data obtained from local businesses and the general public ─ statistics and data that are deemed useful at the international level for constructing E&I measures, and carrying out sectoral, local, regional and other analyses to inform stakeholders and policy-makers on E&I matters. It also reports on the progress made, and provides some thoughts on how the agenda will unfold in the years to come. ΑΒSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION In 2016, in order to address the consequences of Greece’s 2009-16 economic downturn, the regional authorities of Western Greece, with the limited powers delegated to them by the central government and the scarce resources available to them, took the initiative to reverse the situation from the supply side. With the help of KEPE, the largest economics research institute in Greece, they wrote down a low cost
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