Chapter 13
Conclusions and Recommendations
Phoebe Koundouri and Lydia Papadaki
Abstract This chapter summarizes the concluding remarks and recommendations
based on the analysis presented in the previous chapters. The chapters (This work
has received funding from the European Union’s seventh Framework Program under
grant agreement N
288,710 and N
288,192, from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement N
675,680, N
773,782, from the European Union’s INTERREG Balkan-Mediterranean program
under grant agreement MIS 5017160, from the European Union’s European Institute
of Innovation and Technology under grant agreement N
190,880, N
200,805, N
201,166, N
190,836, N
190,744, N
200,068 and N
200,620.) of this book
capture a wide spectrum of sustainable (e.g. economic, societal and environmental)
challenges related to the seas presenting critical outcomes of marine and maritime
research. The analysis in Chaps. 2, 3, 4, and 5 showed that MUOPs can potentially
benefit from each other in terms of infrastructure, maintenance, etc. It is clear that the
main sources of uncertainty about the viability of the projects are coming from the
lack of precise knowledge on the operational conditions of the technology. In this
context, MERMAID’s assessment tool provided researchers with an intuitive way to
evaluate multiple scenarios that would be hard and time-consuming to assess
manually. Chapter 6 presents novel IT applications, which can facilitate producers
to engage in the technology race, and Chap. 7 sheds light to the source-to-sea
concept, which bridges the chasm for a better integration, cooperation and
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
L. Papadaki
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece, Athens, Greece
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
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Conclusions and Recommendations
Phoebe Koundouri and Lydia Papadaki
Abstract This chapter summarizes the concluding remarks and recommendations
based on the analysis presented in the previous chapters. The chapters (This work
has received funding from the European Union’s seventh Framework Program under
grant agreement N
288,710 and N
288,192, from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement N
675,680, N
773,782, from the European Union’s INTERREG Balkan-Mediterranean program
under grant agreement MIS 5017160, from the European Union’s European Institute
of Innovation and Technology under grant agreement N
190,880, N
200,805, N
201,166, N
190,836, N
190,744, N
200,068 and N
200,620.) of this book
capture a wide spectrum of sustainable (e.g. economic, societal and environmental)
challenges related to the seas presenting critical outcomes of marine and maritime
research. The analysis in Chaps. 2, 3, 4, and 5 showed that MUOPs can potentially
benefit from each other in terms of infrastructure, maintenance, etc. It is clear that the
main sources of uncertainty about the viability of the projects are coming from the
lack of precise knowledge on the operational conditions of the technology. In this
context, MERMAID’s assessment tool provided researchers with an intuitive way to
evaluate multiple scenarios that would be hard and time-consuming to assess
manually. Chapter 6 presents novel IT applications, which can facilitate producers
to engage in the technology race, and Chap. 7 sheds light to the source-to-sea
concept, which bridges the chasm for a better integration, cooperation and
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
L. Papadaki
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece, Athens, Greece
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. Koundouri (ed.), The Ocean of Tomorrow, Environment & Policy 57,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56847-4_13
243