I am the Founder and Director of TECHNIS, an interdisciplinary research group that works on innovation and patents. Apart from running TECHNIS, I am an Associate Professor at the Economics Department, University of Crete and the former Head of the Knowledge Transfer Office at the University of Crete. I hold a PhD from UCL, I lectured economics at Lancaster Management School and the University of Bristol, I was an RTN fellow at the University of Toulouse, and a visiting scholar at the Law Department, University of Oxford, and the econ and finance department at KU Leuven. Building on a lifelong interest on the forces that shape innovation, I employ the tools of management science, economics and law to rethink the role of patents as R&D incentives. Currently, the emphasis of my work is on AI, paying particular attention to the field of pharmaceutical innovation.