Leading knowledge institutes and reputable companies will work together at the Brainport Industries Campus to bring ideas to manufacturing readiness and develop business cases. The campus is a state-of-the-art working, innovation and (non-for-profit) learning environment for the next generation in high-tech manufacturing. The Brainport Industries Campus is home to broad alliances between suppliers, specialised SME companies and innovative educational and knowledge institutions. Digital Manufacturing - High Tech Production, Innovation, Education & Training. Joint open innovation well be executed in an open innovation, non-for-profit, pre-competitive setting. Digital technologies.

BOOST, the Smart Industry network East Netherlands, was launched by Oost NL (East Netherlands Development Agency) in May 2015. BOOST is (since 2018) one of the five Smart Industry Hubs in the Netherlands (https://smartindustry.nl/in-de-regio/).

It is of great importance to our economy that the manufacturing industry continues to lead the way in digitization and robotisation. This requires - in addition to applying new technologies - social innovation within the companies themselves. The BOOST activities focus on taking manufacturing industry entrepreneurs into the opportunities offered by the digital revolution. BOOST does this by making manufacturing companies aware of the upcoming transition, activating the trend following SME companies and providing direction by offering a broad range of in-depth instruments. BOOST is a network organization in which entrepreneurs, the BOOST partners (Oost NL, branche organizations, business networks), education, research partners and (regional) government participate in order to realize a strong, smart and sustainable industry. Under BOOST collaborations are realized, where the Fieldlabs, innovation projects, masterclasses, workshops, events and professorships are good examples. With BOOST we work together on the development of digital skills and the digitalisation of the SMEs in our region. 

The BOOST partner network covers a combination of services: 

-BOOST and Oost NL focus on Ecosystem development

-The (Smart Industry) Fieldlabs, universities and education, research partners focus on Technology development (TRL 6-9) and the development of digital skills.

-Most of the BOOST partners (branche organizations, business networks) focus on Business Development.

For the next years to come the BOOST partners will work on the further development of the Hub structure, projects, workshops, tools  to support the digitalisation of the SMEs in our region. Digital technologies.

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is one of the leading technical
universities of Central Europe. The Department of Electron Devices (BME-EET) is a worldwide
recognized research organization in the field of thermal and electro-thermal issues in
microelectronic devices. The Department deals with all aspects of microelectronics, from
semiconductor physics through device manufacturing to system level design.

Being a member of the SAE community and the National Industry 4.0 Platform, BME-EET provides the following actions as a non-profit Digital Innovation Hub:

Helps SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps to become more competitive through the adoption of latest digital technologies.
Provides access to infrastructure for physical and environmental testing digital innovations, with additional domain specific expertise in a couple of technical fields
Provides access to a broad network of local SMEs and service providers in Hungary and Central Europe
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Biorizon is a shared research centre with a focus on technology development for the production of biobased bulkaromatics (BTX) and functionalized biobased aromatics for performance materials, chemicals & coatings. Biorizon is the leading innovation hub for bio-aromatics, bringing together brilliant minds from all over Europe to enable our goal: commercial production of bi-aromatics in 2025. By leveraging our infrastructure, local and European ecosystem of diverse expert partners, industry along the value chain, we accelerate progress towards a sustainable future with reduced CO2-emmissions. Digital technologies.

Network services, safety strategies for industry, project development, support for research

BioNanoNet is an Austrian scientific network that specializes in Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) on national and international level, with a strong focus on bio- and nanotechnologies.

BioNanoNet has the clear aim of supporting innovative interdisciplinary research by forming cooperative networks and synergistic collaborations, with special emphasis on nanotoxicology, health, safety & (nano)medicine and sensor technologies.

The BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH is European key player in the field of nanosafety, specialised in developing nano-safety-by-design strategies together with researchers and industry, and coordinates the national technology platforms NanoMedicine-Austria and SusChem-AT.

Additionally, the BioNanoNet GmbH supports national and international research projects in coordination, management, dissemination and communication. Digital technologies.

Bioindustry Park is a science and technology Park and a competenze center specialised in life science and health. The goal od Bioindustry Park is to support the growth of innovative projects in health and life science through supporting services and a multidisciplinary approach involving also process and organisational innovations including digital technologies. Bioindustry Park is managing the bioPmed health cluster, an initiative based on the no profit association bioPmed onceived to improve the competitivness of health care companies particularly SMEs Digital technologies.

Bic Euronova, the European Businesses and Innovation Center (CEEI) of Malaga, is a company formed by public and private capital, founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Commission of the European Communities, to support the creation of innovative SMEs, boost the implementation in progress of new innovative activities in existing SMEs and Public Administrations. 

 

The objective of BIC Euronova is to promote the development of innovative and technology-based companies, therefore it has support services for them that are installed in the incubator as: personalized advice to entrepreneurs with training content in management, marketing, consulting and technology; debates, forums, etc. In addition, it is important to materialize their objetives in a Business Plan, therefore, BIC Euronova has a tool in computer support for telematic advice in the preparation of the Business Plan, also startups and companies count with permanent tutoring and information services to continue growing and developing.

In this way, BIC Euronova hosts companies in the ICT sector with which it collaborates, whose activities, among others, are 3D printing and prototyping, application development, architectural services, integral and advanced solutions with engineering projects, drone and RPAS manufacturers as well as industrial consultancy with activity in the aerospace and renewable sector, automation of industrial processes, and software development among other activities. Digital technologies.

BI-REX is one of the eight Competence Centres founded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development within the 4.0 Industry National Plan framework. The centre, as reported in its Chart is a no for profit consortium which carries out external activities following non-profit aim and focused on Big Data. BI-REX is a public-private Consortium born on the 11th of December 2018 in Bologna gathering in partnership 56 actors: 12 bodies between Universities and Research Centers and 44 enterprises of excellence working in the field of services finance and logistics, energy, automotive and aerospace, mechatronics, ICT, biomedical and agree-food. BI-REX collects the know-how of the Emilia Romagna High Technology network (existing industrial research laboratories, infrastructures, Digital innovation Hubs - DIH) but with a national and international road map. One of the main goals of the Centre is to assist companies, especially SMEs, in the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. In particular, BI-REX provides companies, especially SMEs with the following services: Orientation and Consultancy Awareness raising on Industry 4.0 technologies and related benefits for enterprises and SMEs, on Italian Industry 4.0 Strategy, in particular on the Italian Competence Center System and BiRex services. Workshops, webinars and conferences, thematic working groups, reports and analyses on Key Enabling Technologies Digital readiness assessment services and support services for the digital transition Consultancy services on I4.0 technologies (e.g. cybersecurity, IoT, big data, AI, 3D printing, advanced robotics, etc.) Demo, proof of concept and prototyping  activities to allow enterprises an SMEs understanding and testing the real advantages offered by Industry 4.0 technologies Trainings Several types of trainings: trainings on specific topics, technologies and tools related to Industry 4.0, trainings on innovation management. Trainings can be delivered: (a) on site, using the learning centre or the digital capability center, which is the pilot plant for proof of concepts, testings and prototyping activities which require the use of the equipment. (b) in e-learning or blended mode, using a dedicated web platform. Innovation Projects and Fundraising Support Possibility to implement collaborative projects of industrial research, experimental development and innovation through calls co-financed by Bi-Rex and Italian Ministry of the Economic Development Scouting of funding opportunities and support in collaborative projects definition, proposal writing and submission It’s important to remark that BI-REX headquarter is located in Bologna (Italy), its facilities cover 1.500 square meters inside the Opificio Golinelli, place of competence and activity contamination: training, research and business activities. In particular the competence center can rely on: offices area for its personnel, co-working area which will host professionals and researchers from different companies and research institutions, training laboratory hosting over 100 students/trainees and the Digital Capability Centre. The Digital Capability Centre is an advanced production pilot line, where new Industry 4.0 technologies are integrated with traditional ones, in a digitally interconnected environment. The Pilot Plant has been designed in order to: anticipate digital transformation processes; support technological innovation of enterprises; increase the added value of company products. The pilot plant is made of the following technologies and tools: selective laser melting, direct energy deposition-DED, mobile and collaborative robotics, a measuring station, a CNC machine center, edge computing, cloud and analytics, a 5G cell. This pilot line will allow the realization of advanced prototypes and high added value small series, making them available on the market and will allow SMEs testing technologies before invest. On the website Bi-Rex company profile in English can be found at the following link: file:///C:/Users/Serena%20Dangelo/Downloads/BI-REX_Institutional-Presentation_ENG%20(2).pdf. The translation into English of the whole website is on-going and will be available soon.     Digital technologies.

BGI is a nongovernmental, nonprofit, apolitical and independent organization established in 2014 under Ordinance no. 26/2000. The associations’ aim is to adjoin the development of innovative digital projects. To achieve its objectives, the association has conducted RDI activities (Research, Development, and Innovation); organized training courses, seminars, conferences, public debates; provided advice and counseling; conducted, published and distributed books, flyers, brochures, software; developed own programs in partnership with Beia Consult International: http://www.beia-telecom.ro/bgi/

BEIA Consult International, is a R&D performing SME, founded in 1991, and one of the leading providers of ICT solutions and services in Romania for cloud communications and IoT telemetry. BEIA is ISO certified and has experience in coordinating, participating and evaluating in more than 40 R&D and Innovation projects (FP6, FP7, H2020, Eureka, etc.) 

BGI joined with the Competence Center of Beia Consult International, in order to offer Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) services in the field of service innovation, hardware, sensors, actuators, information technologies, data storage and processing (back end), interfaces, software (front end), integration, communication technologies / tele-systems, learning & training, standardization, communication / dissemination / marketing, business development, project management. 

We offer consultancy and implementing of solutions for IoT/ICT problems in the following domains: local and central administration, industry and agriculture, energy, environmental protection, public health, education and culture, national defense and intelligence. Digital technologies.

The Basque Digital Innovation Hub (BDIH) is a non-profit initiative that responds to the Basque Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) to support businesses in experimenting with digital and sustainable innovations.

Its main objective is to provide the Basque industry, particularly its SMEs, with easy and cost-efficient access to the Basque network of excellent, innovative scientific-technological assets and capabilities to advance from an efficient and socially sustainable way towards digitalisation.

The BDIH is structured as a public-private collaboration network composed of more than 30 organisations of the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network (universities, technology centres, advanced vocational training centres and business R&D units) and of strategic business partners.

These organisations are united in the form of a consortium, which provides services to the industrial ecosystem, especially SMEs, by connecting their resources (infrastructures, laboratories, equipment, software) and scientific-technological capabilities (people) around the priorities of the smart specialisation strategy (S3) of the Basque Country. The hub is co-owned by R+D Centers, Vocational Training Centers, Universities and Business R&D units and is supported by regional public institutions.

Currently, the technology services are structured around 8 nodes:

Flexible robotics
Additive Manufacturing
Cybersecurity
Advanced Materials
Digital electrical networks
Medical devices and digital health
Smart and Connected Machines
Data Driven Solutions

These nodes are work areas in which the BDIH organises the partners’ knowledge and technology.

Around these nodes, the BDIH has several strategic partners who support the Basque industry by providing a range of complementary services to train and develop skills, to provide support to find investments and to develop the innovation ecosystem and networking.

Test before invest

Technical and economic advice
Prototype and pilot development
Technology transfer

Skills and training

Awareness-raising events and videos
Training workshops
Training courses

Support to find investment

Partner search to access funding
Funding search

Innovation ecosystem and networking

Networking events
Signposting to commercial suppliers
Demonstrations and use cases
European partnerships

Link to national or regional initiatives for digitising industry

Smart Industry Strategy 

The Basque Region reviewed its RIS3 Smart Specialisation Strategy in 2020 which addresses areas of productive specialisation within the industrial network and technological capabilities of the Basque Country.

The Basque Digital Innovation Hub is one of the three Strategic Initiatives designed and implemented in the framework of this Smart Industry Regional Strategy.

National Working Group of Digital Innovation Hubs

The BDIH is also connected at national level as a member of the Working Group of Digital Innovation Hubs that the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government has promoted in the framework of its Connected Industry 4.0 Strategy (http://www.industriaconectada40.gob.es/Paginas/index.aspx ).

The objective of this national working group is to promote collaborative actions
interhub and to develop a complete portfolio of
services of the Spanish hubs.

European ecosystem connections

The BDIH is integrated into an exceptionally rich ecosystem, as highlighted by the broad panel of strategic partners or the links to other initiatives detailed below, in which the BDIH and its members are actively involved:

DIHNET.eu and I4MSGO
AIOTI CID Network
DIGIFED, AI REGIO and MIDIH
VANGUARD INITIATIVE
VARIOUS PARTNERSHIPS OF S3

In addition, the BDIH is actively collaborating with other (E)DIHs to enhance and maximise the capacities of the various industrial, economic and social Basque sectors.

 

 

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