To maintain a competitive edge, companies require innovative ideas, new and improved products or services as well as the right market approach. As a company-oriented university of applied sciences, CAMPUS 02 provides comprehensive services for the industry. Therefore, CAMPUS 02’s research mission is to actively support Styrian companies – from the idea to the market. Digital technologies.

Campania DIH is a no profit entity performing networking, matchmaking, brokerage and dissemination activities. The aim of Campania DIH 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 manufacturing transformation towards Industry 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 toinnovation regional ecosystem

Design and delivery of training initiatives

Coordination activities for implementing I4.0-based factories

Digital technologies.

PISMO is the first non-profit digital innovation hub located in Sisak Moslavina county with the aim of stronger and successful shift from traditional industries to modern ones. It provides services to companies eager to adopt digital technologies in dominantly traditional industry region. The aim is to create a strong partnership based on trust with a main goal of creating new jobs and strengthen the economy of SMC and Croatia. The core business of PISMO as a DIH is a smart skills build-up – enhancement of existing and creation of new labour force for smart specialization. PISMO will also be partly focused on providing services for metal processing sector. It is expected that Croatian (and SMC) industry of manufacturing of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, will improve its position and competitiveness on the international market.

PISMO is intended to be a center of a gaming industry in Croatia, connecting gaming development companies with start-ups and individuals. As PISMO is fully equipped for gaming development, it will enable for young people to develop their ideas, to create new games and even to promote it on a global market. It will also enable existing SMEs to scale up their business and to shift towards digital era.

PISMO DIH is consisted of two buildings (located in town Novska) with 20 offices, big coworking and multimedia area, education areas, music and video studios, motion capture studio and all necessary equipment for gaming development industry. Financial support system is designed as well, and it will offer potential start-ups a great opportunity to start theid businesses and to develop ney ideas.

The above mentioned is achieved mainly through educations, mentoring and networking.

Educations are held regularly and they aim to help individuals and existing companies to acquire skillset necessary to withstand challenges of digital era. Educations include digital skills for game development and business skills necessary to survive contemporary market challenges. They are completely free of charge.

Mentoring process is carried out by our experts and by people from partner organisations and it provides a valuable source of practical knowledge and experience. Mentors follow client’s first steps towards digitalisation or developing their ideas and lead them throughout entire process.

Networking is enabled through meetings and workshops that are being held with a purpose to connect education participants and existing SMEs with gaming industry and their representatives. In that context expert conferences on digitalization, gaming, marketing and sales opportunities are held.

There are also some other services that supplement our main services to clients: Incubator services which include rent of offices, coworking area and equipment specialized for gaming and other digitally based ideas. Equipment include music and video studio, VR, motion capture studio, photogrammetry studio, 3D printer etc.

Access to local, regional, national and EU funding – PISMO DIH experts offer consulting services to clients by offering them solutions for financing of their ideas. PISMO DIH team has a long-time experience in attracting finances for entrepreneurs. Digital technologies.

Bron Innovation is a one-stop non-profit innovation hub with a clear vision to develop digital innovation, business and competence for our member organization, and provide digital competence in our region. It is a quadruple helix collaboration network for ICT and Digitalization; private companies, national agencies, regional authorities and municipalities as well as NGOs. Our members and their services are worldwide, however the office for Bron is based in the county of Västernorrland, Sweden. Our focus areas are Industrial Digitalization, Govtech, IoT, 5G and Digital information management services, in which we are running several types of projects and activities. In these areas we are open for international collaboration with other clusters around Europe and worldwide.

Bron is located at the strategic centre of the region’s development ecosystem. We work in close collaboration with university, R&D centres, science park, business incubators, industries and public sectors. It is regions biggest ICT cluster, certified by European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis, Berlin. At Bron we believe in sustainable networking and we maintain a diverse corporate network with partners and members from all sectors. We are devoted to increase knowledge and understanding of innovation and digitalization among wide range of industries, specially SMEs. We help SMEs in evaluation and profiling of their current organizational and operational status, in order to identify opportunities for development, growth and transformation. Then we offer direct coaching to create strategic plan to reach business transformation goals. We strive to find best digital solution providers who can implement the strategic plan. We assist member organizations to find and attract new employees with right competence. Bron is an agile organization, ready to adapt to new technologies. We are partner in regions first 5G infrastructure, which allows companies to step forward and test next generation technologies.

At Bron we regularly arrange seminars to promote innovative digital technologies. We also arrange workshops focusing on competence development in member organizations. We host northern Sweden’s biggest Hackathon to encourage creative and innovative ideas to solve problems in industry and society in general. One of the most important events for us is a yearly conference on industrial and public sector digitalization, which is successfully maintaining its reputation for over three decades and attracts people from across the nation. Digital technologies.

Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and is the largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. The Robotics Innovation Facility is housed in BRL’s state-of-the-art laboratory, which covers an area of over 3,000 square metres, and is located on UWE’s Frenchay Campus to the north of the city of Bristol. The RIF is equipped with a number of robots, vision systems and other items of automation. BRL also houses laboratories and spaces for work in areas of assisted living, machine vision, human robot interaction, sensor development and sensor applications in surgery, swarm robotics, microbial fuel cells etc. One of the largest European indoor arenas for flying Miniature UAVs is located within BRL. A well-equipped workshop with additive layer manufacturing machines, machine tools and electronic benches etc. provides support for many of the research projects. Three dedicated personnel service the RIF and support its offerings with additional assistance provided by the BRL technical support team and other engineers and scientists employed in the laboratory, and the university at large, as and when required. Bristol Robotics Laboratory is also responsible for the coordination of activities of RIFs in SSSA, Pisa, CEA, Paris and BRL, Bristol. Digital technologies.

A multi-disciplinairy hub for digital innovation

The Brightlands Smart Services Campus (BSSC) is a non-profit institute consisting of researchers and educators, innovative entrepreneurs, students, visionary investors and companies leading the field in smart services. We offer the latest R&D and knowledge infrastructures, on-campus education, science-oriented business support and business development services. At the campus we combine a scientific and business ecosystem with labs that merge innovation and expertise—all in a single strategic location. This is a place where tomorrow’s jobs are created now, talents are developed, pioneers feel at home and companies can grow. All without borders.

The campus is home to innovation labs for data analyses and data visualization. We offer easy access to IT experts, students and trainees, multiple innovation programs and many other opportunities for SMEs explore and implement digital innovations. Digital technologies.

Brightlands Materials Center fuels the polymeric materials field with knowledge, talent and entrepreneurship by bringing universities, students, industry leaders and business professionals all together in shared research programs and the inspiring community of the Brightlands Materials Center.
The themes of our research address major societal challenges such as sustainable energy, mobility, and health & well-being. These research themes can also be related to Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s EU programme for research and innovation, a pivotal part of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and economic growth:
Additive Manufacturing -  Health & Well-being
Lightweight Automotive - Mobility
Sustainable Buildings - Sustainable Energy Digital technologies.

(mission, scope, services provided) BrainsBusiness – ICT North Denmark is a regional industrial cluster intiative that brings together all major forces within the North Denmark ICT environment: Companies and knowledge institutions within ICT (Information and Communications Technology) as well as relevant public organisations and authorities. The long-term goal of BrainsBusiness is to contribute to the North Denmark ICT cluster being recognised as one of the most attractive and competitive ICT clusters in Europe. The mission of the cluster is to strengthen and develop the ICT environment in North Denmark through three overall activities: 1. Strengthen the competitiveness of the North Denmark ICT companies through facilitated networking across sectors, internationalisation, the facilitation of the development of Smart Society solutions, competence development within marketing and service design as well as furthering knowledge sharing by building bridges between university and industry. 2. Ensure recognition through increased visibility to the strengths of the North Denmark ICT cluster – nationally and internationally. 3. Establishing an attractive industrial environment for ICT companies in North Denmark by ensuring access to resources, knowledge and favourable framework conditions. Digital technologies.

Leading knowledge institutes and reputable companies will work together at the Brainport Industries Campus to bring ideas to manufacturing readiness and develop business cases. The campus is a state-of-the-art working, innovation and (non-for-profit) learning environment for the next generation in high-tech manufacturing. The Brainport Industries Campus is home to broad alliances between suppliers, specialised SME companies and innovative educational and knowledge institutions. Digital Manufacturing - High Tech Production, Innovation, Education & Training. Joint open innovation well be executed in an open innovation, non-for-profit, pre-competitive setting. Digital technologies.

BOOST, the Smart Industry network East Netherlands, was launched by Oost NL (East Netherlands Development Agency) in May 2015. BOOST is (since 2018) one of the five Smart Industry Hubs in the Netherlands (https://smartindustry.nl/in-de-regio/).

It is of great importance to our economy that the manufacturing industry continues to lead the way in digitization and robotisation. This requires - in addition to applying new technologies - social innovation within the companies themselves. The BOOST activities focus on taking manufacturing industry entrepreneurs into the opportunities offered by the digital revolution. BOOST does this by making manufacturing companies aware of the upcoming transition, activating the trend following SME companies and providing direction by offering a broad range of in-depth instruments. BOOST is a network organization in which entrepreneurs, the BOOST partners (Oost NL, branche organizations, business networks), education, research partners and (regional) government participate in order to realize a strong, smart and sustainable industry. Under BOOST collaborations are realized, where the Fieldlabs, innovation projects, masterclasses, workshops, events and professorships are good examples. With BOOST we work together on the development of digital skills and the digitalisation of the SMEs in our region. 

The BOOST partner network covers a combination of services: 

-BOOST and Oost NL focus on Ecosystem development

-The (Smart Industry) Fieldlabs, universities and education, research partners focus on Technology development (TRL 6-9) and the development of digital skills.

-Most of the BOOST partners (branche organizations, business networks) focus on Business Development.

For the next years to come the BOOST partners will work on the further development of the Hub structure, projects, workshops, tools  to support the digitalisation of the SMEs in our region. Digital technologies.