While Greece has picked up speed as far as innovation and strengthening your sector technologies, enterprises, especially SMEs, still have a long way to go to improve their performance in this area, which is an obstacle to their further development. The “key” to innovation is technology using modern data infrastructures, multi-cloud environments, cybersecurity technologies, remote work, etc.

According to the Dell Technologies Innovation Index, a survey of 6,600 employees in more than 45 countries around the world, there is a gap between the perception of innovation and its implementation by organizations. In particular, only 8% of companies in Greece – 18% worldwide – can be defined as “innovators” and “innovators” (innovators, innovators). That is, only 8% of Greek enterprises they have innovation in their DNA and are launching mature innovation plans to improve it. This, according to the study, is important, since “innovators” and “innovators” are 2.2 times more likely (1.14 times in Greece) to improve their business activity even in the midst of a period of economic uncertainty, recession, inflation. and so on compared to latecomers (lagging behind innovations, followers of innovations).

In fact, “innovation leaders” (innovation leaders) at the global level are 1.9 times more likely to increase their income, while they are 1.7 times less likely to have problems finding qualified personnel in the IT industry. It is noted that in order to perceive the maturity of companies in matters of innovation, respondents were asked to place themselves on a scale of innovation maturity in companies, which starts from “innovative leaders” and ends with those who lag behind.

In general, however, businesses in Greece are optimistic about their innovation potential, with 74% of companies in Greece agreeing that an innovation culture is cultivated domestically, while the corresponding percentage is 84% ​​internationally. On the other hand, 86% of companies worldwide (80% in Greece) are actively looking for technologies to innovate, while almost 6 out of 10 companies both globally and in Greece believe that their technologies are not cutting edge and that they will be left behind competitors.