Dimitrios Pontikakis

Biography

Dimitrios Pontikakis (BA, PhD) is an Economist and Policy Analyst at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre. His current work focuses on the design and provision of appropriate policy support to foster innovation in low income and low growth EU regions. He leads the recently launched Working Group on "Understanding and Managing Industrial Transitions", a key activity of which are the Reviews of Industrial Transition. He was previously an Economist at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, contributing to OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy and to OECD work on System Innovation.