Costas Troulos is Senior Advisor in the Industry, Growth, Technology, and Innovation Division at SEV. He supports startups in their scaleup plans and assists larger enterprises and industries in exploring innovation opportunities. With in-depth knowledge of the European innovation ecosystem, Costas has extensive experience in the industry-academia collaboration conundrum, with particular interest in technology transfer and IP commercialization. He has raised multi-million-euro funding for the private and public sector. Costas is Dr. Electrical and Computer Engineer with an MBA in entrepreneurship.