DIGITECH SI – East is regional innovation ecosystem enabled and supported by industry driven virtual living laboratory LENS Living Lab, Toolmakers Cluster of Slovenia, Competence Center ROBOFLEX and Competence Center AALaseR, with their regional and international business ecosystems. Mission DIGITECH SI – East mission is to be the regional innovation ecosystem through which industry business partners and other stakeholders can get the latest, knowledge and technology know-how from the Industry 4.0, related key enabling technologies, supporting systems and services. Scope Technology foresight, technology application research, technology proofs, testing and piloting, technology acquisition and integration support, industry value chain integration business models and services, virtual manufacturing system applications, technology and knowledge transfer, innovation processes supporting services, technology, and digitalization literacy development, fostering of the open innovation and collaboration culture, education. Services provided • INFO center services, • Technology services provided by the partnering competence centers, • Portfolio of open innovation virtual communities with the specific topics of mutual collaboration interests, • Support and facilitation of partnering innovation project initiatives, • Industry applied research and innovation projects partnering services, • Services of supporting long-term partnering in the areas of identified technology collaboration interests, • Pilot and technology demonstration services, • Project office services • Business development services - New business models and business plans • Consulting services - access to funding for R&D ans investment projects • DIH industry and research sector networking services and support • DIH digital ecosystem services • Organization of training activities, including technical, business and management skills Digital technologies.

Promotion of digital manufacturing transformation towards Industrie 4.0 approacch and the Value Chain processes overall. In particular the main activities are:

promoting the training of qualified human resources (training & education)
Raising the companies’ awareness on opportunites of I4.0
Support in the choice and planniing of investments for innovation 
Orientation to the Competence Center I4.0
Support in accessing to finance (public and private)
Mentoring to companies
Interaction and networking with European DIHs  
Trans-sectoral DIHs which suit the characteristics of the Italian industrial system and business culture according to Confindustria system structure
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DIH Liguria is a non profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of DIH Liguria is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

DIH deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industrie 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

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
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The Center for Digital Innovation called DIH4S is a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) that acts as a one-stop shop for helping companies and organizations to improve their competitiveness by adopting digital technologies. DIH4S is a not-for-profit hub-organization.

Our services are designed to assist companies and public organizations to innovate their business and production processes, products or services through digitalization, as well as to facilitate access to technical expertise in digital transformation and experimentation on digitalization.

The Center for Digital Innovation DIH4S also provides specialized services, such as financing advice in relation with digitalization-driven projects, training and skills development for a successful digital transformation. Our approach for digitalization embeds environmental and circularity issues, too.

The specialization area of our DIH is directed on ensuring wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society. Therefore, our target beneficiaries are both private and public organizations, including SMEs from any economic sector and public administration.

In parallel, the Center for Digital Innovation DIH4S is working to support projects that are related with Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (generically called in DIH4S as Data Intelligence), with the consideration of Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things issues.

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Pomurje Technology Park is a community with more than 200 regional based companies, strong international connections and wealth of experience in EU programs. The number of members is constantly growing, as more and more companies recognize the advantages and benefits provided by membership in an internationally oriented entrepreneurial and supportive environment. 

 

Technology Park devotes special attention to promoting the transfer of knowledge, experience and technologies to the economy, which is reflected in the creation of new jobs and higher added value. In this way it contributes to the higher competitiveness of innovative entrepreneurship in the region and promotes the creation of new, growth-focussed and knowledge-based companies. 

 

Technology Park is an organization with supportive and stimulating business environment for the development of technology entrepreneurship. By providing its members with the necessary infrastructure, services, target oriented training, mentoring and promotion, it motivates entrepreneurial potential in the region and assists in the realisation of entrepreneurial initiatives with high levels of knowledge and market potential. At the same time it enables matchmaking and synergies with the domestic and foreign developmental, research, financial and market environments. 

 

Besides the credibility and prestige enjoyed by the entire community it also offers its companies the following comprehensive business support: 

(1) Start:up Center (infrastructure, equipment, accelerator & mentoring programme, entrepreneurial training programme, consulting services)

(2) Innovation Center (SME audit/diagnosis/benchmarking via developed tools, development support of new products/services/technologies via Living Lab approach, tailor made business projects and solutions)

(3) Internationalisation support (entering new markets)

(4) Preparation & implementation of EU projects 

 

Other relevant information: 

• According to the National act of supportive environment for entrepreneurship PTP has a public mandate to implement support programmes for start-up companies in Slovenia;

• References in the following sectors: Metal and polymer industry, Mechatronics, Informatics and telecommunication technologies, Food, Creative industry, Tourism;

• Own RD unit registered at the National Research Agency (ARRS);

• Signed more then 90 contracts with faculties, institutes, schools and other research units;

• Number of company members: more then 200;

• Internationalization: Project experience with partners coming from more then 20 EU countries.

• ISO certificate 9001:2015  Digital technologies.

The Digital Innovation Hub AI and Cybersecurity (DIH4AISEC) supports companies and the public sector in the Metropolitan Region Hannover-Braunschweig and wider Lower Saxony in the application and development of digital technologies. The Hub serves as a focal point for the target groups and is responsible for coordinating and bundling partner services as well as networking. 

Our focus areas for the application of AI and security technologies are the production, mobility and trade sectors, which are key sectors for Lower Saxony. The most important partners in these focus areas have joined forces in DIH4AISEC, to drive further digital innovations and help shape the digital transformation in Lower Saxony. Digital technologies.

Digital Innovation Hub Emilia-Romagna is a no profit entity performing information and awareness services, tutoring and coaching, personalized consultancy, matchmaking with innovation ecosystem. In addition DIH-ER cooperates with other national and European Digital Innovation Hubs, with Competence Centers, and Enterprise Europe Network.

The aim of DIH-ER is to help companies, especially SMEs, to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes/organization as well as products, services and business models exploting digital technologies. Furthermore, DIH-ER deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industry 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

In particular the main activities are:

Information and Awareness on use cases and benefits deriving from 4.0 technologies and digital transformation
Mentoring and coaching
Support in digital transformation projects and continuous training
Personalized consulting
Analysis of the digital maturity of the company and of the supply chains through specific assessments
Definition of action plans for innovation management, digital transformation, access to financing and possible partnerships
Matchmaking with Innovation Ecosystem
Identification of technological partners, access to Competence Centers 4.0 and Digital Innovation Hub, collaboration with universities, research centers, other companies, support for network contracts
Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories
Design and delivery of training initiatives
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The Digital Innovation Hub of Belluno Dolomiti (DIH) is an innovation hub that was set up to support businessesundergoing digital transformation in the context of the Industria 4.0 Plan. The Hub acts as a link between companies and researchers, to activate a policy of pervasive territorial awareness, that is oriented above all towards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Centre of Innovation Excellence, based at the Hub, will start to organise and disseminate a culture of technology and entrepreneurship based on the topics of Industria 4.0. and guide and support local PAs along the pathways of innovation and computerisation by implementing the Digital Agenda.

The Digital Innovation Hub of Belluno Dolomiti brings different individuals (public bodies, training institutes, trade associations) together around the same table, and helps them to work together to pursue a common objective: seizing the opportunities offered by the industrial revolution that’s underway.

Raises awareness about the opportunities available in the context of Industria 4.0;
Supports SMEs in the planning of innovative investments;
Connects businesses and Skills Centres (Universities, Polytechnics, etc.);
Provides support for accessing public and private financing tools;
Facilitates access to public and private financing tools;
Provides businesses with a targeted mentoring service;
To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding for the competitive digital transformation of the Province of Belluno has been signed, a process in which the Digital Innovation Hub has played a strategic role.

The headquarters of the Belluno Digital Innovation Hub are located at the Negrelli Forcellini Technological Institute of Feltre, which represents an important link between the worlds of culture and businesses, and will allow the activation of experimental training courses on the themes of Industria 4.0 and the Digital Agenda, involving students (including university students) and trainers.

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DIH Basilicata is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities.

The aim of DIH Basilicata is to help companies to become more competitive by improving their business/production processes as well as products and services by means of digital technology.

DIH deals with the promotion of digital manufactoring trasformation towards Industrie 4.0 approach and the Value Chain processes overall.

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
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Mission

Funded by the federal Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the regional governments of Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the DIH West is a non-profit undertaking combining the knowledge and resources of 13 partners - academic and business promotion agencies - to achieve the overarching goal of enabling SME in Western Austria to reap the benefits of digital transformation.

This is to be achieved by identifying innovation potential and supporting SMEs in digitization projects.

In order to drive promising innovations forward, work is done together with digital-savvy SMEs in working groups.

This combination of SMEs with universities and research institutions creates win-win situations and lively partnerships.

Services

Information: The local business promotion agencies help to provide an overview of the service packages and forward inquiries to a suitable educational institution.
Events: A wide variety of event formats and networking opportunities are available in the topic area of digital transformation in the regions, Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Salzburg.
Workshops: The DIH West offers workshops that help to facilitate the entry into sub-areas of digitalization.The majority of the basic workshops are thereby free of charge for SMEs.
Working groups: The expertise of SMEs is in demand in the working groups. For SME lead companies and start-ups with a high level of digitization expertise. Access to the working groups is free of charge.
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