Dr. Dimitrios A. Georgakellos is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Piraeus. He received his graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and his doctoral degree in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus. He has more than fifteen years’ of project experience in the private sector. His current academic and research interests focus on Environmental Economics and Management, Technology and Innovation Management, Business Plans Preparation & Entrepreneurship and Energy Management. He has more than 60 scientific articles published in local and international Journals and Conference Proceedings. Some of his work has been published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Transportation Research: Part D, Energy Economics, Information Systems Management etc. His work has been cited in many scientific papers etc. He is/has been reviewer in many scientific international Journals and Conference Proceedings. He is/has been the scientific coordinator or member of the research team of many research projects. He has been twice member of the Senate of the University of Piraeus, while he is currently member of the Research Committee of the University of Piraeus Research Center.