Irene F. Daskalopoulou is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Peloponnese, Greece. She graduated from the Department of Economics of the University of Patras, where she completed her BSc studies in Economics. She holds an MSc degree from the ICAMAS – MAICH, Department of Economics and Management Sciences. She holds a PhD degree from the Department of Economics of the University of Patras. She has been awarded a full scholarship for her MSc studies from the International Center of Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (ICAMAS – MAICH) and a full scholarship for her PhD studies form EU funded Programs and the University of Patras Research Committee (“Karatheodoris” Basic Research Fund). Her research interests lie in the areas of consumer theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organization and economic development and policy. She has published her work in referred journals and collective volumes and she has co-authored the book “Entrepreneurship Incubators and Economic Growth: An across Countries Empirical Analysis”. She is a member of the SDE Lab, ESREGAL Lab, and the Australian Centre on Quality of Life, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Business Models, European Journal of Innovation Management, and Multidisciplinary Business Review journals. She is also a Guest Editor for the Sustainability journal (Guest Editor – Special Issue: Social Capital and Sustainability: Spatial Evidence 2020 – 2023) and serves as a reviewer in a number of international academic journals. She has participated in a number of national and E.U. funded research projects implemented by the Universities of Peloponnese and Patras, ICAMAS – MAICH, the National Center for Social Research, and the Regions of Patras and Peloponnese. She teaches at the University of Peloponnese from 2005 onwards and at the Hellenic Open University (SEP) from 2010 onwards.

Social capital (trust, networks, norms / values)

Institutions (political behavior, democracy, governance, efficacy)

Entrepreneurship (motivation, rewards, local and regional development, social and solidarity economy, social entrepreneurship) 

Public policy (socio-economic integration of minorities)