North- East Romania DIH - ˝Digital Innovation Zone˝

Overview

North- East Romania Digital Innovation Hub - ˝Digital Innovation Zone˝  is a not-for-profit initiative, a bottom-up initiative based on the commitment of North-East RDA, 6 Universities, 3 clusters (biotechnology, imagistic medicine and ICT), 3 chambers of commerce, as well as 6 privat companies experienced in scaling innovation & digital solutions in the region of North-East Romania. After its creation, the DIH started a pilot for a small group of enterprises that with the support of Forth Innovation method and coachers from the founders defined each 3-4 business cases based on which the company will be serviced.

North- East Romania Digital Innovation Hub - ˝Digital Innovation Zone˝ is a integrated platform for regional companies to support their digital (r)evolution, covering end-to-end digital innovation process. It provides digital services to private sector companies, in particular, but also to public sector, able to offer the best expertise and skills in technologies needed for digital transformation, all within the framework of European DIHs, perfectly aligned with the Digital Romania Manifesto, launched in November 2016.

The DIH addresses regional digitisation issues by providing SMEs one-stop-shop for tailor made digitalization services in their regional proximity. The coordinators offer at their best the suitable capacity and competences to provide digitalisation services to the regional ecosystem which do not have a clear perception of digitalisation benefits. Our region is a catching-up region but one of the most ambitious in tranforming regional challenges into opportunities by using professional attitude and strong cooperation with local stakeholders and the international partners, especially in the area of innovation and entrepreneruial ecosystem development. The proof is in the 20 years of experience of the North-East Development Agency.

Our main focus is on digital solutions enhanced with Artificial Intelligence and data driven solution for local SMEs from all the priority sectors from tha Smart Specialisation Strategy but not limited to.

In addition, our purpose is to support digitisation through collaborations with different sectors of activity through clusters and not only and to establish a culture of co-creation of technological joint solutions and products through a trans-sectoral collaboration, in every field from education and creative industries to health or agriculture. Also, our current activities are focused in strengthening the innovation ecosystem and creating and implementing regional strategies based on smart city solutions in order to promote smart specialisation.

Another objective is to identify collaborative projects for digitalisation of all the relevant stakeholders: companies, clusters, research institutes and software companies, public authorities, Universities.in order to stimulate technological innovative capabilities and to create multiple solution for multiple sectorial needs so that the companies can become more COMPETITIVE, INNOVATIVE, DIGITAL and AGILE.

Digital Innovation Zone brings together top digital innovation experts as One-Stop-Shop to help SMEs grasp the digital opportunities providing access to latest knowledge, expertise and technology, business and financing support to implement these innovations. A whole ecosystem as One-Stop-Shop, a regional multi-partner cooperation that brings together the capabilities and creates the linkages with the service providers, olicy makers, funding sources and global network, DIH Network, EEN network and others.

Some of the servicesDigital Innovation Zone provides are:

- specialised Diagnose and Analysis services

- Innovation Tracks Solution Oriented Process
- Acces to funding

- Support for the creation and implementation of infrastructure projects;

- Knowledge and know-how transfer;

- Networking activities, workshops for digitization in collaboration with others sectors;

- Digital Skills Trainings;

- Define fields of action and to advise policy makers;

- Development of regional strategies for digitization together with relevant stakeholders;

- Exchange experiences, best practices, data and studies;

- Business links, business networking;

- Internationalization services by the Enterprise European Network.

 

 

  Digital technologies.