Enhancing Science-Driven Blue Growth with an AI-Enabled Cloud/HPC Platform for Strategic Innovation Policy
Phoebe Koundouri *
ReSEES, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, 10434, Greece, Chair, UN SDSN Europe, Paris, 75009, France and Sustainable Development Unit, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Marousi, 15125, Greece.
Ioanna Grypari
Institute of Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Marousi, 15125, Greece.
Yannis Ioannidis
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, 15784, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Marousi, 15125, Greece.
Lydia Papadaki
ReSEES, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, 10434, Greece and Sustainable Development Unit, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Marousi, 15125, Greece.
Charalampos Stavridis
School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece and UN SDSN Black Sea, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.
Nicolaos Theodossiou
School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece and UN SDSN Black Sea, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.
Haris Papageorgiou
Institute of Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Marousi, 15125, Greece.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
SDSN Greece, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, supported by SDSN Europe, have established the Sustainable Euro-Asian Seas Initiative (SEAs) to accelerate science-driven blue growth and SDG implementation in the Euro-Asian Seas and beyond. The study aims to support the objectives of the SEAs by leveraging the AI-driven capabilities of the IntelComp platform to enhance science, technology, and innovation (STI) policymaking for sustainable blue growth. Two essential components to provide knowledge, legal certainty and security in the blue economy are the following: ensuring marine knowledge to improve access to information about the sea and enforcing maritime spatial planning to ensure efficient, sustainable, job-based and inclusive management of activities at sea. IntelComp (H2020 project) seeks to build an innovative Cloud Platform that will offer AI-based services to public administrators and policymakers across Europe for data- and evidence-driven STI policy design and implementation. One of IntelComp’s focus areas is the climate change challenge, targeting the Blue Growth perspective. Within the project’s framework, Living Labs (LLs) will take the role of implementing a co-creation approach and engaging all relevant stakeholders to explore, experiment with and evaluate STI policies at all stages.
Keywords: Blue growth, blue economy, sustainable seas, SEAs initiative, IntelComp, STI policy, living labs