Yiannis Falas

Yiannis FALAS is a Mining Engineer, graduate of National Technical University of Athens (1990). After graduation, he worked in the Region of Western Macedonia, as Assistant Co-ordinator of Transport Infrastructure program (1st and 2nd C.S.F.). He has then been the project manager of the Regional Innovation Strategy, RIS and RIS+ Projects and the "Knowledge clusters" Innovative Actions Program of W.M.

He works as an expert for the Regional Innovation Office of W.M. He also worked as an expert in cross-border cooperation with FYROM and Albania. He has long experience with SMEs. His main interests are innovation and regional development, interregional and cross-border development strategies, namely for clusters and SMEs.