PRODUTECH Digital Innovation Hub National Platform

Portugal: North (Portugal)

Overview

PRODUTECH Digital Innovation Hub Platform’s mission is to foster the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, via the gathering of a critical mass of capacities, the networking of stakeholders and the nurturing of the ecosystem, towards the deployment of added value support services that enables, potentiates and furthers industry modernization. The PRODUTECH Digital Innovation Hub Platform has a comprehensive national coverage encompassing the regional dimensions and the relevant stakeholders, and notably comprising Competence Centers and Labs, R&D organizations, Sectoral technology centers, Industry Associations, Production Technology Providers, leading users from the manufacturing industry, SMEs, Start-ups, Education/Training Centers and Incubators/Science parks and civic societies, and the articulation with National and Regional Authorities, Venture Capital organizations and public agencies. PRODUTECH Cluster’s DIH Platform gathers the pertinent regional initiatives (e.g. iMan Norte Hub, Norte region section, coordinated by INESC TEC, UPTEC and PRODUTECH ) and stakeholders in the deployment of a one-stop gateway for the provision of support services towards industry digitizing, via the inter and intra networking of capacities, competencies, intervention capabilities and service offers, linking initiatives and stakeholders and further levering cooperation and outreach at European scale (e.g. networking of pilot initiatives and services under Vanguard Initiative). As a support gateway for industry digitizing it gathers a comprehensive set of services, from visioning, strategy development and roadmaping to the deployment of large scale initiatives in R&D and Innovation, from awareness actions to matchmaking (e.g. for maturity assessment, access to specialist expertise and infrastructures, solution deployment, advanced training, mentoring…), from visibility actions (national and international) to priority definition, exploitation of opportunities (innovation, integrated offers, solutions take-up, deployment and diffusion, cross-fertilization and business) and access to funding and financing. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Agriculture, forestry and fishing - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities - Silviculture and other forestry activities - Fishing and aquaculture - 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 - 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 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
Technology
Micro/nano electronics - Sensory systems - Photonics and imaging technologies - Screens and display technologies - Communication networks - Cyber physical systems - Robotics - Internet of things - Artificial intelligence - Mobility & Location based technologies - Interaction technologies - Cyber security - Advanced, or high performance computing - Big data, data analytics, data handling - Virtual, augmented and extended reality - Simulation, modelling and digital twins - Gamification - Software as a service and service architectures - Cloud computing