Dimitri Uzunidis
Dimitri Uzunidis is Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, France and Technical University of Crete, Greece.
Biography
He was born in 1960, and studied journalism, economics and sociology. He began studying at Paris 13 university and finished at Paris 10 university. He obtained his PhD in economics in 1987 on the following subject : Access to technology for developing countries. Negotiation capacity and national scientific potential under professor François Chesnais tutorship. The PhD was updated and published in 1994.After having worked in various international and Hellenic institutions, Dimitri Uzunidis was named as an associate professor in 1992 at the new University of Littoral Côte d’Opale. He participated in the establishment of this university, where he founded and managed the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation. A specialist in the international political economics of innovation, he currently teaches in some French and Greek universities and he is also associate professor at Seattle University.
Dimitri Uzunidis has published and edited many books on international economics and on economics of innovation. The research he has developed with Sophie Boutillier on the entrepreneur and the dynamics of capitalism has given rise in some major publications at the international level.
Dimitri Uzunidis has also significant responsibilities in the scientific edition sector, he is the editor of international journals: Innovations, Cahiers d'économie de l'innovation and Journal of Innovation Economics. These two journals in French and English language are published by De Boeck and Cairn. He is also director of publication of the series Marché et organisations and L’esprit économique at L’Harmattan.
Dimitri Uzunidis is currently President of the Research Network on Innovation.