Digital Innovation Hub Toscana

Italy: Tuscany

Overview

The Digital Innovation Hub Toscana is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The Digital Innovation Hub in Tuscany is part of Confindustria's national DIH network and it aims to increase the level of knowledge and awareness of the Tuscan companies on digital transformation according to the National Enterprise Plan 4.0. 

Through the activity of the Digital Innovation Hub in Tuscany and thanks to the regional competence network, companies can access to high qualified techinical know-how.

The DIH is a regional structure based in Confindustria Toscana, in Florence, but it has the branched presence in the territorial Associations, which act as a real reference point for companies, in particular SMEs. The organization, streamlined and contained, favors operations and flexibility according to the needs of companies/users.

It provides a desk for carrying out information, awareness and support activities, able to direct companies towards qualified subjects for the provision of services and technologies, using its own network, the national DIH network and the Competence Center network.

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
Construction - Construction of buildings - Civil engineering - Specialised construction activities - Education - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply - Water supply; sewerage; waste managment and remediation activities - Water collection, treatment and supply - Sewerage - Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery - Remediation activities and other waste management services - 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 - 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 food products - Manufacture of beverages - Manufacture of tobacco products - Manufacture of leather and related products - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. - Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products - Manufacture of paper and paper products - Printing and reproduction of recorded media - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products - Manufacture of textiles - Manufacture of other transport equipment - Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials - Mining and quarrying - Mining of coal and lignite - Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas - Mining of metal ores - Other mining and quarrying - Mining support service activities - Other services activities - Activities of membership organisations - Repair of computers and personal and household goods - Other personal service activities - Other manufacturing - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security - Real estate activities - Professional, scientific and technical activities - Legal and accounting activities - Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities - Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis - Scientific research and development - Advertising and market research - Other professional, scientific and technical activities - Veterinary activities - Administrative and support service activities - Rental and leasing activities - Employment activities - Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities - Security and investigation activities - Services to buildings and landscape activities - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Technology
Cyber physical systems - Robotics - Internet of things - Artificial intelligence - Interaction technologies