Maria Mavri is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of the Aegean in Greece and a member of the Board of Directors of the same university. Her research interests lie in the field of sustainable development, 3D printing and operations research. Patricia Ikouta Mazza is a Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at the University of the Aegean in Greece. Her research interests focus on sustainable development, digital convergence and smart development of a region. Anastasios Karasavvoglou is a Professor of Economics at the International Hellenic University in Greece and President of the annual international conference "Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries". He has published numerous books and papers on immigration, regional development and the labor market. Persefoni Polychronidou is an Associate Professor of Quanitative Methods at the Department of Economic Sciences at the International Hellenic University in Greece. Her research focuses on statistical and data analysis and she has published numerous papers on empirical economic data. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research.