Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN)  is a non-profit industrial alliance improving the global competitiveness of Finnish industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation.​ FAMN is business-driven open innovation ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies in the way towards a new era of networked, data driven systems.​​ In co-operation with Technology Industries of Finland. The Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN) is a company-led open ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies aiming to improve the global competitiveness of industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation. In FAMN, the member companies are at the drivers seat and work together to set focus areas. All partners have a management board seat and can propose and and participate in co-creation initiatives such as RD&I projects, infra initiatives, training etc. FAMN also collaborates closely with research institutions on project basis. The ecosystem launches new R&D&I projects for the industry network, innovators, and ICT start-ups and opens the ecosystem activities to larger network. The ecosystem has influence on the global discussion regarding rules and regulations as well as plans strategic roadmaps and industrial standards.  FAMN helps companies to develop their competitiveness with regards to data sharing, platforms, digital twins as well as to autonomous business products and services. The Ecosystem provides support to their customers with experimenting new digital innovations. The ecosystem collects and coordinates training and R&D&I initiatives and supports relevant activities to take place. The ecosystem also brands the development work and acts as active communicator towards national funding agencies as well as strengthens visibility internationally. The ecosystem helps also SMEs with matchmaking, giving opportunity to participate in programs and other activities (e.g.  Data accelerator for SMEs, Demobooster, FIIF, Machine Learning Academy, Demola etc.) The FAMN activities have been for example; Mutual strategy work, launch of two competence development academies (Machine learning and New Business models academies), data accelerator for SMEs, roadmap work, conference and speeches, projects and workshops in the field of industrial data sharing and sustanaible manufacturing.       Digital technologies.

Faubourg Numérique is a non-profit organization created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Faubourg Numérique acts as Living & Learning Lab to foster open innovation in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning. Faubourg Numérique leads the local Saint-Quentin French Tech startup network and is initiator of the Open & Agile Smart Cities french network (OASC France). Faubourg Numérique (IoT Booster) is also recognized as Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) by the FIWARE foundation (managing FIWARE IoT open source technology). Digital technologies.

ZSA DIH helps farmers, agronomists, companies, research and development institutions and other organizations in Latvia to create added value by using digital technologies, better business and production processes in agriculture sector. The main strategic objectives are to initiate and develop cooperation between the public sector, business and science in the field of digital innovation, using the most modern means of communication and technology. ZSA DIH provides non-profit services for digitization of agricultural enterprises in Latvia, and it solves digital business challenges for ecosystem participants. 

The main ZSA DIH activities are focused on the end user needs. The DIH provides a variety of the non -profIt services:1) Technology services including collaborative R&D, technical support on upscaling, testing and validation, mapping platformand services, experiments, access to DIH network, networking with technology providers and scientists; 2) Business services including access to finance and funding, skills and education, brokerage, access to competence centers; 3) Ecosystem services including a community building (e.g. Living labs, >800 members of Farmers Parliament), visioning & strategy development (CAP in EU, RDP2021 – 2027: introduction of integration of digital innovations and environmental technologies investment), mentoring.

ZSA DIH works to promote the stability of Latvian agriculture on farms, digitization, modernization and successful management and integration of agricultural enterprises into EU policies and platforms. DIH supports the creation of an environment conducive to rural entrepreneurship, the development of a sustainable rural environment and infrastructure, and the availability of quality education, social care and culture in rural areas.

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FAB4 DIH - Confartigianato Salerno is a non-profit networked knowledge system made up of Confartigianato Salerno, SELLALAB https://sellalab.com/, Medaarch S.R.L. https://www.medaarch.com/and Knowledge for Business S.R.L. https://www.kforbusiness.it/, whose mission is to support the creation and promotion of innovation technology transfer for innovative start-ups and micro, small and medium sized enterprises based in Campania, in particular in the agrifood sector.

FAB4 aims at promoting the process of digital transfromation by:

supporting start-ups in open innovation and digital transformation processes;

boosting crafts activities through digital and new technologies;

acting as a regional innovation technology provider;

providing technology infrastructures and know how in order for start-ups and SMEs to reach an optimal technological horizon and a high level of digitization;

assiting start-ups and SMEs in innovative project applications and implementation;

providing access to knowledge and infrastructure for validation and testing of innovations through a strong defined partnership with local research centers and universities;

creating sector projects in order to raise awareness on the needs of specific artisan's categories and respond through innovative solutions.

In order to implement those activities, as a DIH, FAB4 coordinates a network of consultancy, training, research, design companies, professionals and NGOs specialized in the digital fabrication technologies, providing technological innovation in order to create a positive impact on manufacturing, education, work processes and sustainability. In particular, FAB4 DIH Confartigianato Salerno supports and develops, the implementation of different knowledge-transfer activities together with its FAB4 DIH special partners (Medaarch, Knowledge for Business, SELLALAB). Those activities are:

C.A.D - Centro per l'Artigianato Digitale, Incubator and Technological Services for Digital Craftsmanship. CAD is an Innovation Center, a training and technological hub, designed to help craftsmen, start-ups and SMEs to innovate through digital and new technologies. It aims at being a concrete example of how tradition and innovation can not only coexist, but together they would represent the real key to the growth and relaunch of production activities.

Mediterranean FabLab - Digital Design and Manufacturing services, is an equipped laboratory with digital manufacturing machines and technologies for the prototyping of objects, tools and electronics. The Mediterranean FabLab is a meeting place for people of all ages open to research and innovation, it is also a hub of creative processes capable of creating, through participatory innovation, training, research and production scenarios that can meet the needs of the new market and support the revitalization of business. It focuses on architecture projects and smart cities, giving space to ideas and products that use technologies to improve the quality of life.

BIOlogic - Digital Manufacturing in the Biological Sector, supports the development of research and projects for bio-based manufacturing and it is the first bio-fab lab in southern Italy structured as a research and development center, which uses biological fabrication technologies to create biological matrix products to develop new manufacturing processes. BIOlogic has active research lines ranging from the creation of materials with intelligent properties, functional to the development of a green manufacturing, up to the creation of 3D printers for controlled-release multivolumetric capsules, useful for agriculture and food integration.

Working with those innovation partners is essential for the implementation of technology transfer processes to start ups and SMEs and the development of their digital competences and it is functional to the coordination of the activity of the FAB4 DIH. 

In September 2018, FAB4 DIH Confartigianato Salerno signed a Framework Agreement with the University of Salerno in order to define the cooperation between the two parties aimed at supporting innovation and digital transformation processes of SMEs and craft businesses, by:

Developing collaborative research and technology transfer projects;

Design and implement advanced training activities for businesses;

Promoting the use of laboratories, facilities and technological skills available in the University for start ups and SMEs;

Supporting the process of setting up and developing start-ups and academic spin-offs aimed at enhancing research activities.

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The Experimental and Digital Factory (EDF), a flexible modular factory and Innovation Laboratory at the Professorship of Factory Planning and Factory Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, represents an important basis for excellent research and development in the field of factory planning and factory operations and logistics.

The EDF is understood as a representation of a "complete mini-factory" with all the essential manufacturing and logistics components of general cargo as well as components whose production planning and control. The immediate interplay between planning and operation enables application-development / adaptation of methods and tools for factory planning and operation as well as the behavioral study of factory and logistics processes and configurations. Research and development priorities include smart factory, industry 4.0, automation (e.g. automated guided vehicles), identification (e.g. RFID/NFC), digital factory, adaptability and energy efficiency/management. Digital technologies.

The mission of the e!xperience DIH is to promote the competitiveness of cultural and experience-based industries (creative industries, tourism and sports) through applied research, innovation and knowledge transfer. The main objectives of the DIH are: • To promote innovation based on creativity (soft innovation) to encourage a better introduction of emerging digital technologies in cultural and creative industries, including experience-based industries. • To promote new dynamics of development of cultural and creative activities based on collaboration between companies, research and innovation agents and public cultural services providers in Catalonia. • To strengthen the visibility and the link between production and cultural experiences with their public broadening, diversifying and personalizing their consumption, access and/or interaction The DIH offers companies applied R+D and technology consultancy, high specialized training and promotion and dissemination of technological innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries and industries based on the experience. Digital technologies.

The Digital Innobation Hub Northern Netherlands / Region of Smart Factories (DIH/RoSF) is a n non-profit organization to encourage and support digitalization of the economy and the industry in the Northern Netherlands, follwiing 3 action lines: 

‘Go Digital’ to get all companies at the stage of conscious/competence with regard to digitalization.
‘Play the Champions League’ to connect our frontrunners with the EU innovation programs and to share our competences with additional regions.
‘Create & Share talents and comptences’ by three regional demo factories annex skillslabs.

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ETICOM, is a business association with more than 300 companies, associated organizations and collaborators, non-profit. ETICOM is the cluster of the Digital Economy in Andalusia, one of the most important ICT and content groups in Spain. Its purpose is to defend the interests of entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and since 1999.

 ETICOM has developed its own formation path, - ETICOM Corporate University - where offer masters, formation and capability courses accompanied of our associated, providing since 2001 best manners in IT sector.

ETICOM is a partner of two main multisectorial associations of IT sector in Spain (AMETIC and CONETIC), providing our voice in the high representation councils of the technology sector at national ratio, in defense of our members.

As reference in Digital Economy sector, ETICOM has participated with National Agency Red.es, in training and skills development for youth, promoting the specialized training in order to prepare students and professionals to the specific market needs.

In local focus, ETICOM has participated in digitalisation process for SME through provincial goverment Diputación de Sevilla, with conferences about digital marketing, and a mentoring project with SMEs in Lean method for low-digitalized procedures.

Nowadays, ETICOM participates with Diputación de Sevilla organizating conferences with our experts, about the uses of cloud enviroment for SME, ERP systems and new jobs and opportunities in technological envirment.

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Espaitec is the Science, Technology and Business Park of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón managed by the non-profit organisation Fundació General de la Universitat Jaume I (General Foundation of University Jaume I). An innovative area that started in 2007 made up of technology-based companies, research groups and public organisations that work in different economic sectors to contribute in a quantified and acknowledged fashion to the socio-economic development in the province of Castellón, and also to the diversification of its business fabric through innovation.

Espaitec provides a high technology environment for user-driven testing called e'LivingLab (https://youtu.be/1hhG-c9PLKE) as one of the main services for helping our SME to develop their products using a co-creation environment with their clients (one example of prototyping was published "LivingLab services for Business support and internationalisation" https://issuu.com/enoll/docs/living_lab_services_for_business_su/42 published by ENOLL). e'LivingLAB is member of European Network of LivingLabs (https://enoll.org/network/living-labs/?livinglab=espaitec-living-lab#de…)

Soon we will launch our FabLab that will help to develop prototyping under this user-driver philosophy. 

After more than 10 years of work, we have created a reference environment in the province of Castellón which intends to host, support and promote, and help develop, innovative business initiatives, to facilitate the transfer of technology developed at the University, supporting the digitalization of SMEs and to act as an acknowledged delegate in the innovation field.

In short, it is an area of the Universitat Jaume I where experimentation can be done through innovation; create new professional opportunities by generating technology-based companies; bring talents and disciplines together; promote 360º innovation as a way of life; generate wealth through transferring knowledge to society. Digital technologies.

The EOSC-hub Digital Industry Hub is a non-profit multi-dimensional entity that allows research e-Infrastructures to support business organisations to stimulate the innovation potential of research infrastructures, as well as helping SMEs, start-ups and other innovative actors to tap into the academic world both in accessing knowledge as well as technical services. The final goal is to create a one stop shop that brings IT services, research data, and expertise into a single place to support innovation in industry.

The value proposition of the EOSC-hub DIH can be summarized in five key areas:

Brokerage and innovation

In this regard, the EOSC-hub DIH aims to:

Facilitate effective collaboration within local and international networks.
Promote “open innovation” as the concept used to leverage resources available in the e-Infrastructure network and strategically manage business innovation processes.
Generate innovation ecosystems around e-Infrastructures.
Create a wider community adding researchers, web-entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, investors and corporates from different sectors and geographies.
Expose startups/SMEs to new markets, cultures and business opportunities.

Provide the means for business incubation of innovative ideas

Activities in this space include, but not limited to:
Identifying and refining innovative ideas and facilitating the start-up of operational groups.
Providing the necessary expertise and infrastructure (data, hardware, software, platforms).
Creating conditions for showcase of benefits of new services and products within the e-infrastructure.

Access to public and private funding and facilitate market uptake  

A dedicated unit aims to support both pilots and Competence Centres (CCs) to build-up successful market take-up and commercial boost strategy, through tailor-made coaching, market insights and network with investors/corporate. A business oriented coaching team will be established with the mission to accelerate pilots and CCs market uptake and exploitation of main achievements/ results.

Support entrepreneurship

Creating opportunities for industry to obtain resources (i.e. products, services, data, platforms and testing facilities) to establish new business

Gaining new competencies and skills within research and academic spaces for supporting spin-outs.

Fostering the re-use of open e-infrastructures ecosystems for innovation.

Improving exploitation of thematic/community-driven services among e-infrastructures.

Training

service specific tutorials, business coaching webinars and formal certification in service management according to FitSM

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