Reflecting sustainable development, and the role the universities should have in it is reflected in this paper as part of dealing with complexity. It is the task of the university to teach and do research on complexity in order to be able to understand the diverse, complex issue of sustainable development. Sustainable development can be considered as a complex societal issue. The relation betwe...

Recent studies on economic and technological transformation in less developed countries emphasise that improvement of their performance in terms of competitiveness and successful integration into the world economy requires both economic stabilisation at the macroeconomic level and technological development. Greece is a typical case, which during the last twenty years has had to deal with specif...