EOSC-DIH

Overview

The EOSC-hub Digital Industry Hub is a non-profit multi-dimensional entity that allows research e-Infrastructures to support business organisations to stimulate the innovation potential of research infrastructures, as well as helping SMEs, start-ups and other innovative actors to tap into the academic world both in accessing knowledge as well as technical services. The final goal is to create a one stop shop that brings IT services, research data, and expertise into a single place to support innovation in industry.

The value proposition of the EOSC-hub DIH can be summarized in five key areas:

Brokerage and innovation

In this regard, the EOSC-hub DIH aims to:

Facilitate effective collaboration within local and international networks.
Promote “open innovation” as the concept used to leverage resources available in the e-Infrastructure network and strategically manage business innovation processes.
Generate innovation ecosystems around e-Infrastructures.
Create a wider community adding researchers, web-entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, investors and corporates from different sectors and geographies.
Expose startups/SMEs to new markets, cultures and business opportunities.

Provide the means for business incubation of innovative ideas

Activities in this space include, but not limited to:
Identifying and refining innovative ideas and facilitating the start-up of operational groups.
Providing the necessary expertise and infrastructure (data, hardware, software, platforms).
Creating conditions for showcase of benefits of new services and products within the e-infrastructure.

Access to public and private funding and facilitate market uptake  

A dedicated unit aims to support both pilots and Competence Centres (CCs) to build-up successful market take-up and commercial boost strategy, through tailor-made coaching, market insights and network with investors/corporate. A business oriented coaching team will be established with the mission to accelerate pilots and CCs market uptake and exploitation of main achievements/ results.

Support entrepreneurship

Creating opportunities for industry to obtain resources (i.e. products, services, data, platforms and testing facilities) to establish new business

Gaining new competencies and skills within research and academic spaces for supporting spin-outs.

Fostering the re-use of open e-infrastructures ecosystems for innovation.

Improving exploitation of thematic/community-driven services among e-infrastructures.

Training

service specific tutorials, business coaching webinars and formal certification in service management according to FitSM

Digital technologies.