Innoskart Digital Innovation Hub

Overview

Innoskart Digital Innovation Center from Innoskart Digital Cluster The Innoskart ICT Cluster was established in 2006 as a classic cluster to support the innovative cooperation of SMEs in the Central Transdanubia Region of Hungary. The structure and scope of activities of the cluster and the cluster management body have been constantly evolving over the years, since 2019 it has been using the name Innoskart Digital Cluster. Today, as a result of its networking activities, it already operates as a Digital Innovation Center. Innoskart DIH is a non-profit actor embedded in the digital innovation ecosystem. As a cluster, it has the Hungarian “Accredited Innovation Cluster” certification and the European level Silver Label certification. In 2021, the cluster has 54 members, mainly SMEs, as well as local governments and a university knowledge centers. Innoskart’s mission Supporting digitization by facilitating and supporting dialogue, knowledge and technology transfer between service and user companies. It plays an “interface” role between very different actors of the ecosystem who are equally involved in digitalization, primarily at regional and domestic level. In the meantime, Innoskart is building an international network to help those actors to strengthen competencies in order to achieve European standards.   Thus, digital innovation is not only supported in the Central Transdanubia Region, Innoskart is also actively involved in the construction of national and European level networks. Participation in consortia of various tenders helped this construction activity. Such partnerships are: COSME Natureef ESCP-4i COSME Connsensys ESCP-S3 Innosup INCluSilver Innosup S3FOOD Interreg Central Europe ProsperAmnet Interreg DTP eDigistars Consortium membership in Hungarian eDIH proposal Innoskart has already participated in the development and implementation of an innovation voucher system on several occasions, the aim of which is to promote the digital innovation of companies, mainly SMEs. We also provide business training and coaching services on industrial technology transfer topics. Innoskart is member of a consortium who has established - in order to ensure long-term cooperation and utilize results - the SS4AF partnership (Smart Sensor System for Agri-food - ss4af.com/), several partner organizations are already DIH. Innoskart agreed to establish closer cooperation with 3 universit and 1 industry knowledge centers on the establishment of a Hungarian unit of a European agri-food living lab network. In addition to Innoskart, the following take part in this: Budapest University of Technology and Economiy, Industry 4.0 Technology Center (http://www.ipar4.bme.hu/), ELTE-Soft Nonprofit Ltd. (http://www.eltesoft.hu/en/), Óbudai University, Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics (http://irob.uni-obuda.hu/?q=en), Campden BRI Hungary Nonprofit Ltd. (https://campdenbri.hu/en/en-magyarorszag.php) In the European innovation support system, several agri-food industry transfer projects with Hungarian participation have already won, in the implementation of which Innoskart actively supported the applicants, who demonstrated well the implementation of digital innovation in the food industry SME sector. Based on these experiences, we created a so-called electronic digital marketplace (https://innoskart.digital/digitalis-piacter/) that allows members to network and create digital innovation collaborations. In terms of the impact of Covid-19, we have implemented a significant community-building innovation by organizing webinars in support of digital innovation, where our goal is to present various success stories. We also support the emergence of digital innovation in a wider social context: as part of our work on Interreg DTP eDigistars, we are supplementing existing tools for digital education for 50+ people with new innovative tools. As a result, industrial employers will have more confidence in employing this age group who acquire more up-to-date digital competencies. Innoskart cooperates with the actors - organizations, clusters, universities, knowledge centers supporting Hungarian digital innovation in a way that fits into European trends - who come together to operate eDIH. Clearly, Innoskart DIH’s activities towards supporting the local SMEs with their digital transformation are as follow (https://innoskart.digital/szolgaltatasaink/): searching partners for digitization of industrial companies’ projects business coaching and training for better understanding of different market actors (interface role) regular information about funding sources for digital transfer in industry access to Hungarian Agri-food Technology transfer Living Labs Initiative in order to test before invest regular webinars to spread knowledge about available digital solutions to answer the industry needs blog on website with professional articles all in relation to digital transformation in order to build trust towards the SMEs and widen the expert pool. https://innoskart.digital/innoskart-magazin/ Digital technologies.