Digital Innovation Hub Liguria

Italy: Liguria

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

DIH Liguria is a non profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of DIH Liguria 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
Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub for Society (DIH4S)

Romania: North-West (Romania)

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The Center for Digital Innovation called DIH4S is a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) that acts as a one-stop shop for helping companies and organizations to improve their competitiveness by adopting digital technologies. DIH4S is a not-for-profit hub-organization.

Our services are designed to assist companies and public organizations to innovate their business and production processes, products or services through digitalization, as well as to facilitate access to technical expertise in digital transformation and experimentation on digitalization.

The Center for Digital Innovation DIH4S also provides specialized services, such as financing advice in relation with digitalization-driven projects, training and skills development for a successful digital transformation. Our approach for digitalization embeds environmental and circularity issues, too.

The specialization area of our DIH is directed on ensuring wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society. Therefore, our target beneficiaries are both private and public organizations, including SMEs from any economic sector and public administration.

In parallel, the Center for Digital Innovation DIH4S is working to support projects that are related with Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (generically called in DIH4S as Data Intelligence), with the consideration of Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things issues.

Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub for Smart Manufacturing

Slovenia: East Slovenia

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

Pomurje Technology Park is a community with more than 200 regional based companies, strong international connections and wealth of experience in EU programs. The number of members is constantly growing, as more and more companies recognize the advantages and benefits provided by membership in an internationally oriented entrepreneurial and supportive environment. 

 

Technology Park devotes special attention to promoting the transfer of knowledge, experience and technologies to the economy, which is reflected in the creation of new jobs and higher added value. In this way it contributes to the higher competitiveness of innovative entrepreneurship in the region and promotes the creation of new, growth-focussed and knowledge-based companies. 

 

Technology Park is an organization with supportive and stimulating business environment for the development of technology entrepreneurship. By providing its members with the necessary infrastructure, services, target oriented training, mentoring and promotion, it motivates entrepreneurial potential in the region and assists in the realisation of entrepreneurial initiatives with high levels of knowledge and market potential. At the same time it enables matchmaking and synergies with the domestic and foreign developmental, research, financial and market environments. 

 

Besides the credibility and prestige enjoyed by the entire community it also offers its companies the following comprehensive business support: 

(1) Start:up Center (infrastructure, equipment, accelerator & mentoring programme, entrepreneurial training programme, consulting services)

(2) Innovation Center (SME audit/diagnosis/benchmarking via developed tools, development support of new products/services/technologies via Living Lab approach, tailor made business projects and solutions)

(3) Internationalisation support (entering new markets)

(4) Preparation & implementation of EU projects 

 

Other relevant information: 

• According to the National act of supportive environment for entrepreneurship PTP has a public mandate to implement support programmes for start-up companies in Slovenia;

• References in the following sectors: Metal and polymer industry, Mechatronics, Informatics and telecommunication technologies, Food, Creative industry, Tourism;

• Own RD unit registered at the National Research Agency (ARRS);

• Signed more then 90 contracts with faculties, institutes, schools and other research units;

• Number of company members: more then 200;

• Internationalization: Project experience with partners coming from more then 20 EU countries.

• ISO certificate 9001:2015  Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub for AI and Cybersecurity (DIH4AISec)

Germany: Lower Saxony

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The Digital Innovation Hub AI and Cybersecurity (DIH4AISEC) supports companies and the public sector in the Metropolitan Region Hannover-Braunschweig and wider Lower Saxony in the application and development of digital technologies. The Hub serves as a focal point for the target groups and is responsible for coordinating and bundling partner services as well as networking. 

Our focus areas for the application of AI and security technologies are the production, mobility and trade sectors, which are key sectors for Lower Saxony. The most important partners in these focus areas have joined forces in DIH4AISEC, to drive further digital innovations and help shape the digital transformation in Lower Saxony. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub Emilia-Romagna

Italy: Emilia-Romagna

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

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
Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

DIGITAL INNOVATION HUB BELLUNO DOLOMITI

Italy: Veneto

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

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.

Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub Basilicata

Italy: Basilicata

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

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
Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) West

Austria: The Tyrol

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

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.
Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Innovation Hub 'Smart Production Systems Saxony' – InnoSax

Germany: Saxony

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

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
for innovation and technology in the global competition. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Digital Impulse Hub

Spain: Catalonia

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

 

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.

Sectors
Technology