Digital Innovation Hub Emilia-Romagna is a no profit entity performing information and awareness services, tutoring and coaching, personalized consultancy, matchmaking with innovation ecosystem. In addition DIH-ER cooperates with other national and European Digital Innovation Hubs, with Competence Centers, and Enterprise Europe Network.

The aim of DIH-ER is to help companies, especially SMEs, to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes/organization as well as products, services and business models exploting digital technologies. Furthermore, DIH-ER deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industry 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

In particular the main activities are:

Information and Awareness on use cases and benefits deriving from 4.0 technologies and digital transformation
Mentoring and coaching
Support in digital transformation projects and continuous training
Personalized consulting
Analysis of the digital maturity of the company and of the supply chains through specific assessments
Definition of action plans for innovation management, digital transformation, access to financing and possible partnerships
Matchmaking with Innovation Ecosystem
Identification of technological partners, access to Competence Centers 4.0 and Digital Innovation Hub, collaboration with universities, research centers, other companies, support for network contracts
Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories
Design and delivery of training initiatives
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The Digital Innovation Hub of Belluno Dolomiti (DIH) is an innovation hub that was set up to support businessesundergoing digital transformation in the context of the Industria 4.0 Plan. The Hub acts as a link between companies and researchers, to activate a policy of pervasive territorial awareness, that is oriented above all towards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Centre of Innovation Excellence, based at the Hub, will start to organise and disseminate a culture of technology and entrepreneurship based on the topics of Industria 4.0. and guide and support local PAs along the pathways of innovation and computerisation by implementing the Digital Agenda.

The Digital Innovation Hub of Belluno Dolomiti brings different individuals (public bodies, training institutes, trade associations) together around the same table, and helps them to work together to pursue a common objective: seizing the opportunities offered by the industrial revolution that’s underway.

Raises awareness about the opportunities available in the context of Industria 4.0;
Supports SMEs in the planning of innovative investments;
Connects businesses and Skills Centres (Universities, Polytechnics, etc.);
Provides support for accessing public and private financing tools;
Facilitates access to public and private financing tools;
Provides businesses with a targeted mentoring service;
To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding for the competitive digital transformation of the Province of Belluno has been signed, a process in which the Digital Innovation Hub has played a strategic role.

The headquarters of the Belluno Digital Innovation Hub are located at the Negrelli Forcellini Technological Institute of Feltre, which represents an important link between the worlds of culture and businesses, and will allow the activation of experimental training courses on the themes of Industria 4.0 and the Digital Agenda, involving students (including university students) and trainers.

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DIH Basilicata is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of DIH Basilicata is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

DIH deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industrie 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

In particular the main activities are:

Awareness Dissemination (Meeting, Workshop, etc.)
Supporting activities to industrial companies for Industry 4.0-based project implementation
Support access to tax breaks provided by Piano Industria 4.0
Supporting activities for assessing digital readiness
Supporting activities to facilitate manufacturing companies access to  innovation regional ecosystem
Design and delivery of training initiatives
Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories
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Mission

Funded by the federal Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the regional governments of Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the DIH West is a non-profit undertaking combining the knowledge and resources of 13 partners - academic and business promotion agencies - to achieve the overarching goal of enabling SME in Western Austria to reap the benefits of digital transformation.

This is to be achieved by identifying innovation potential and supporting SMEs in digitization projects.

In order to drive promising innovations forward, work is done together with digital-savvy SMEs in working groups.

This combination of SMEs with universities and research institutions creates win-win situations and lively partnerships.

Services

Information: The local business promotion agencies help to provide an overview of the service packages and forward inquiries to a suitable educational institution.
Events: A wide variety of event formats and networking opportunities are available in the topic area of digital transformation in the regions, Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Salzburg.
Workshops: The DIH West offers workshops that help to facilitate the entry into sub-areas of digitalization.The majority of the basic workshops are thereby free of charge for SMEs.
Working groups: The expertise of SMEs is in demand in the working groups. For SME lead companies and start-ups with a high level of digitization expertise. Access to the working groups is free of charge.
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Industrial digitization  plays  an  essential role on  national agendas as well as in the European strategy 2020. The »Digital Innovation Hub “Smart Production Systems Saxony" – InnoSax SP«, supplies this challenge and combines the competen cies for digital Saxony. Together with regional industry networks and further partners from research institutions, in test centers new concepts and ideas are converted into future-oriented products under scientific supervision. The utility for  the partners is decisive. Together, customized solutions are developed for making production more efficient and for the most effective running of an enterprise. Workshops, technology days and training sessions for and with the industry show the added value of IoT, supporting the introduction and motivating the SMEs to act as drivers
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Digital Impulse Hub is a  Non for Profit consortium of entities fully operative since 2019, resulting from Public and Private collaboration, to foster digital transformation, innovation and the international competitiveness of Catalonia Region, through the digitalization of SMEs and small Midcaps (Manufacturing, services and Commerce), the digitalization of Internationalization (e-commerce, e-business and e-marketing), the digital transformation of municipalities, the New Digital media, and e-learning.

Digital Impulse Hub is giving service to Catalonia region   SMEs and small Midcaps, that represents 675.000  companies and also to more than 850 municipalities.

Digital Impulse Hub brings together competence centers, universities and their research groups, local administration, all the Catalan Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Services and, through them, every Catalan company.  The Hub is coordinated by the Terrassa Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services.

Digital Impulse Hub has a strong territorial link to local economy, with a strong impact to SMEs and Midcaps digitalization,  and Municipalities Digitalisation. All business are registered to Chambers according to Spanish Chambers Law, so the bonds with  business community is very strong with the 13 Chambers of Commerce of Catalonia. The bonds with local Public administration are also present due to Localret covering 854 Municipalities in the Region (Almost all).

Although the competence centres members of Digital Impulse Hub are providing state of the art advanced digitalization services,  this Hub is also focusing on raising awareness, providing guidance (Digital Transformation Coaches), tailored training and providing  advanced digital skills to SMEs, small Midcaps and Municipalities. 

Digital Impulse Hub has a rich ecosystem of more than 30 Collaborating Entities that is interacting through specialised digitalisatios services and co-creation, innovation and networking activities.

Digital Impulse Hub is multi-sector, but focusing on Industry 4.0,  Circular Economy, Construction, e-learning,  retail  and wholesale digitalization, digitalization of International business (EEN joint project: e-commerce, e-business and e-market intelligence), as well as Digital Media, according to Regional Smart Specialization Strategy.

Support to Digital Start Ups community in their sustainability, finance and growth is another important focus of Digital Impulse Hub.

Digital Impulse Hub offers to SMEs the following services:

1) Digitalization aware rising activities.

2) Training on Digitalization and  Advanced Digital Competences. Tailored training.

3) Digitalization Diagnoses. Digital Maturity Assessments and Digital Guidance through Coaches (Digital Transformation Roadmaps for SMEs, small Midcaps and Municipalities).

4) Technology Transfer, co-creation and innovation matchmaking events.

5) Innovation Grants and Subventions services.

6) Access to private finance and to investors.

8) Digitalization support projects and programmes for SMEs.

9) State of the art facilities, testing and experimentation facilities and prototyping (Test before invest)

10) Support, and counselling of digital start ups. Digital technologies.

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The Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI) is one Scotland’s 8 Innovation Centres funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Government.   We play a pivotal role in inspiring, enabling and combining world-leading industry and academic expertise with service, business and technical innovation to create person-centred digital health and care innovations to positively impact society.

DHI focuses on shirting the balance of care from traditional treatment models through the development of digital health and care innovations that focus on prevention, early detection, post event care and independent assisted living.   With our unique and valuable range of capabilities for Scotland combed with core knowledge and expertise built on the foundation of five years’ experience, we operate an effective partnership model, bringing together health and care practitioners, industry and academia to collaborate to solve key demand-led challenges.

DHI is a non for-profit organisation fully funded by Scottish Government through the Scottish Funding Council and the NHS in Scotland. Tasked with addressing the current societal challenges facing health and care services through the use of digital tools and services it also makes an economic development contribution to Scotland and the wider UK by creating opportunities for SMEs and mid cap companies to develop, test and deploy solutions into the Scottish NHS as well as generating inward investment into Scotland. DHI is also a grant awarding body, allocating funding to academic institutions individually or in partnership with industry to take forward academic research and service evaluation as a way of encouraging and supporting innovation as well as creating a credible evidence base that can help secure a route to national and international markets for companies that it works with.

The hub will focus on two main types of activity.

 

The first is “simulation”. DHI will provide data sharing infrastructure that is integrated into health board, local government and third sector care delivery systems. This will allow participating SMEs to connect to this infrastructure and show their products working within a functioning ecosystem – e.g. being able to upload monitoring data or download clinical record data. Individual simulations will be run with DHI developing ‘dummy data’ based test users that can be used to show how integrated systems work together for real, building confidence in the SME product by showing it working in tandem with health systems and other suppliers. When a simulation is successful, DHI will help the SMEs to attract further funding, using the simulation as proof of concept and route to market to improve the hit rate for funding bids.

 

The second is “demonstration”. A design, engagement and project management team will showcase services and products provided by SMEs in a Glasgow based showroom. The team will work with SMEs to create co-designed user stories about seamless and integrated digital service delivery and its benefits. In many cases parts of this story will be simulated as per the above section, to help build confidence in the feasibility and route to market. This material will be used with DHI’s partners across public services, academia and industry – to help people form consortia to seek further funding or to take products into trial or operation. As DHI regularly demonstrates these outputs, they will gather feedback and use this to inform and progress SME capabilities – both technical and commercial, while also influencing commissioners to specify digital services that align with these capabilities.

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Our story

Advanced digital technologies can accelerate growth and increase productivity across the UK economy. To help reach this full potential Digital Catapult, in 2017 alone, has had meaningful engagements with 638 startups and scaleups, 42 new industrial collaborations and 31 new academic engagements to drive innovation and adoption of advanced digital technologies. To make this happen, Digital Catapult delivers three core technology programmes, across two industry sectors, driven by three regional centres and a national centre in London.

How Digital Catapult promotes development and the early adoption of advanced digital technology

We provide physical and digital facilities for experimentation and testing that would otherwise not be accessible for smaller companies.
Our innovation programmes drive collaboration and encourage use of the facilities. By bringing together small companies, corporates, researchers and investors, the right solutions are developed to solve industry challenges, increase productivity and open up new markets faster.
We connect corporations, small businesses and academic researchers to get the latest thinking into the heart of industry and discover new ways to solve big challenges in the manufacturing and creative industries.  
We convene and deliver collaborative research and development that leads to commercial exploitation and companies reducing risk.
We leverage public funding to yield increased private investment.

As well as breaking down barriers to technology adoption for startups and scaleups, our work de-risks innovation for large enterprises and uncovers new commercial applications in Immersive, Future Networks, and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Our technology focus

Digital Catapult specialises in three areas of advanced digital technology namely, Future Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Immersive.

Digital Catapult focuses on these areas because each has demonstrated:

UK strength in both the research base and startups.
Accelerating pre-market innovation indicating that the time to act is now.
A clear global opportunity for UK companies in manufacturing or the creative industries.
A clear opportunity for Digital Catapult to add value and to speed up the processes of digital transformation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI and machine learning)

Digital Catapult is leading technology adoption in the Industrial Strategy’s AI Grand Challenge, where they call the wide range of technologies, tooling and processes involved ‘AI Plumbing’. Like actual plumbing, AI Plumbing can be complex, risky and expensive. To address these challenges, the Digital Catapult has embarked on a number of initiatives: 

They have started to map the AI Plumbing landscape in order to assist discovery, research and planning tasks. We describe the landscape here, and invite feedback.
Running their own machine intelligence projects and having DevOps and systems specialists in-house that work with our machine intelligence team to solve them, they will share how they have overcome specific AI challenges in upcoming blogs, along with useful tips and tools for doing the same.
They host meetups and workshops to illuminate some of the AI Plumbing technologies and strategies.
They have developed an ethics framework that will help companies to implement responsible AI in practice.

Key projects include Machine Intelligence Garage and ContractAI.
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Future Networks (5G and Low Powered Wide Area Networks)

Digital Catapult is driving the development of future networks business models from concept in university labs, to commercial reality with our projects within IoT, 5G and LPWAN that includes Things Connected and the 5G testbed in Brighton.
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Immersive (virtual, augmented, mixed reality and haptics)

Digital Catapult is making the UK the best place in the world to produce immersive content and applications through our projects such as CreativeXR, Augmentor the Immersive Labs and the first European volumetric capture studio.

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Our industry focus

Advanced digital technologies have huge potential to accelerate growth and increase productivity if they are applied to real-world challenges. Digital Catapult is working within two industry sectors where we believe we can have the most impact by increasing the use of digital technology. These sectors are manufacturing and the creative industries. 

Within this our goals are to:

Accelerate the number of trailblazer companies working with advanced digital technologies.
Deliver increased applied research, development and innovation in advanced digital technologies.

Digital Catapult is uniquely positioned to bring together the right innovators, academics, corporates and investors to drive early adoption of digital technologies into industry. We run innovation programmes and offer facilities that help to translate world-leading research and innovation into products and services that will transform these industries, increase productivity and secure the UK’s future global competitiveness.
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DigIT Hub We help the public sector and manufacturing industry in Southern Sweden reach their digitalisation goals.   Digitalisation is a broad term, and digitalisation needs vary within each organization. Through DigIT Hub, we are using digitalisation as an engine to create sustainable and efficient processes and working methods, strengthened competitiveness, and better tailored services in the region. We help organisations in southern Sweden (Skåne and Blekinge) stay relevant through digital transition; allowing them to meet expectations of customers, employees and citizens who are becoming increasingly digital.   Towards "Smart Cities" & "Smart Industry" DigIT Hub is specifically aimed at small and medium-sized companies in the manufacturing industry, as well as entities in the public sector. The initiatives we work with fall broadly within the areas "Smart Cities" and "Smart Industry". No digitalisation issue is too big or too small to share with us, and we offer both introductory and advanced digitalisation support.   What we offer DigIT Hub offers support for digitalisation in the following ways: LEARN: Skills & Training We work closely with training centers, educational providers and research institutions to help build digital skills within your organisation. We build digital capacity for those currently employed, as well as for future generations. TEST: Test-Before-Invest We offer test-before-invest environments, that allow for hands-on demonstration and trial before investing in new tools or equipment that support or enable digitalisation. This is offered in both digital and physical settings. NETWORK: An Innovation Ecosystem We provide access to an innovation ecosystem that offers a range of tools and services to help you identify, select and implement appropriate technologies and digital processes that meet your current needs. INVEST: Support to Find Investments We ensure that you are never alone on your digital journey, with direct access to financing opportunities and a vast network of partners in business, academia and the public sector.   Founding organisations In 2020, DigIT Hub was established as a regional Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) in southern Sweden and has since been appointed by the European Commission as a European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH). DigIT Hub is currently funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Region Skåne, and is led by regional, non-profit cluster organisations Mobile Heights, Media Evolution and IUC Syd in collaboration with Lund University (LTH) and Malmö University. DigIT Hub is also supported by key partners in the public sector, research, business and industry.   Digital technologies.