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Petros Boskos, 35, co-founder of Verdical Planting Systems poses in front of one of his creations in Athens on November 12, 2014

Athens (AFP) - A taxi-tracking tool, a head-hunting engine and a vertical gardening company -- all business startups that have paradoxically emerged from a Greek economy long in the doldrums.

Faced with the worst unemployment wave in living memory, Greece's youth are turning away from the traditional pursuit of civil service or family-centered jobs, and towards innovation and foreign funding. 

Image: Petros Boskos, 35, co-founder of Verdical Planting Systems poses in front of one of his creations in Athens on November 12, 2014