Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) West

Austria: The Tyrol

Overview

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
Financial and insurance activities - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities - Agriculture, forestry and fishing - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities - Silviculture and other forestry activities - Fishing and aquaculture - Human health and social work activities - Human health activities - Residential care activities - Social work activities without accommodation - Accommodation and food service activities - Accommodation - Food and beverage service activities - Manufacture of basic metals - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. - Other manufacturing
Technology
Artificial intelligence - Cyber security - Advanced, or high performance computing - Big data, data analytics, data handling - Software as a service and service architectures - Cloud computing - Logistics
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