Bioindustry Park is a science and technology Park and a competenze center specialised in life science and health. The goal od Bioindustry Park is to support the growth of innovative projects in health and life science through supporting services and a multidisciplinary approach involving also process and organisational innovations including digital technologies. Bioindustry Park is managing the bioPmed health cluster, an initiative based on the no profit association bioPmed onceived to improve the competitivness of health care companies particularly SMEs Digital technologies.

Bic Euronova, the European Businesses and Innovation Center (CEEI) of Malaga, is a company formed by public and private capital, founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Commission of the European Communities, to support the creation of innovative SMEs, boost the implementation in progress of new innovative activities in existing SMEs and Public Administrations. 

 

The objective of BIC Euronova is to promote the development of innovative and technology-based companies, therefore it has support services for them that are installed in the incubator as: personalized advice to entrepreneurs with training content in management, marketing, consulting and technology; debates, forums, etc. In addition, it is important to materialize their objetives in a Business Plan, therefore, BIC Euronova has a tool in computer support for telematic advice in the preparation of the Business Plan, also startups and companies count with permanent tutoring and information services to continue growing and developing.

In this way, BIC Euronova hosts companies in the ICT sector with which it collaborates, whose activities, among others, are 3D printing and prototyping, application development, architectural services, integral and advanced solutions with engineering projects, drone and RPAS manufacturers as well as industrial consultancy with activity in the aerospace and renewable sector, automation of industrial processes, and software development among other activities. Digital technologies.

BI-REX is one of the eight Competence Centres founded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development within the 4.0 Industry National Plan framework. The centre, as reported in its Chart is a no for profit consortium which carries out external activities following non-profit aim and focused on Big Data. BI-REX is a public-private Consortium born on the 11th of December 2018 in Bologna gathering in partnership 56 actors: 12 bodies between Universities and Research Centers and 44 enterprises of excellence working in the field of services finance and logistics, energy, automotive and aerospace, mechatronics, ICT, biomedical and agree-food. BI-REX collects the know-how of the Emilia Romagna High Technology network (existing industrial research laboratories, infrastructures, Digital innovation Hubs - DIH) but with a national and international road map. One of the main goals of the Centre is to assist companies, especially SMEs, in the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. In particular, BI-REX provides companies, especially SMEs with the following services: Orientation and Consultancy Awareness raising on Industry 4.0 technologies and related benefits for enterprises and SMEs, on Italian Industry 4.0 Strategy, in particular on the Italian Competence Center System and BiRex services. Workshops, webinars and conferences, thematic working groups, reports and analyses on Key Enabling Technologies Digital readiness assessment services and support services for the digital transition Consultancy services on I4.0 technologies (e.g. cybersecurity, IoT, big data, AI, 3D printing, advanced robotics, etc.) Demo, proof of concept and prototyping  activities to allow enterprises an SMEs understanding and testing the real advantages offered by Industry 4.0 technologies Trainings Several types of trainings: trainings on specific topics, technologies and tools related to Industry 4.0, trainings on innovation management. Trainings can be delivered: (a) on site, using the learning centre or the digital capability center, which is the pilot plant for proof of concepts, testings and prototyping activities which require the use of the equipment. (b) in e-learning or blended mode, using a dedicated web platform. Innovation Projects and Fundraising Support Possibility to implement collaborative projects of industrial research, experimental development and innovation through calls co-financed by Bi-Rex and Italian Ministry of the Economic Development Scouting of funding opportunities and support in collaborative projects definition, proposal writing and submission It’s important to remark that BI-REX headquarter is located in Bologna (Italy), its facilities cover 1.500 square meters inside the Opificio Golinelli, place of competence and activity contamination: training, research and business activities. In particular the competence center can rely on: offices area for its personnel, co-working area which will host professionals and researchers from different companies and research institutions, training laboratory hosting over 100 students/trainees and the Digital Capability Centre. The Digital Capability Centre is an advanced production pilot line, where new Industry 4.0 technologies are integrated with traditional ones, in a digitally interconnected environment. The Pilot Plant has been designed in order to: anticipate digital transformation processes; support technological innovation of enterprises; increase the added value of company products. The pilot plant is made of the following technologies and tools: selective laser melting, direct energy deposition-DED, mobile and collaborative robotics, a measuring station, a CNC machine center, edge computing, cloud and analytics, a 5G cell. This pilot line will allow the realization of advanced prototypes and high added value small series, making them available on the market and will allow SMEs testing technologies before invest. On the website Bi-Rex company profile in English can be found at the following link: file:///C:/Users/Serena%20Dangelo/Downloads/BI-REX_Institutional-Presentation_ENG%20(2).pdf. The translation into English of the whole website is on-going and will be available soon.     Digital technologies.

BGI is a nongovernmental, nonprofit, apolitical and independent organization established in 2014 under Ordinance no. 26/2000. The associations’ aim is to adjoin the development of innovative digital projects. To achieve its objectives, the association has conducted RDI activities (Research, Development, and Innovation); organized training courses, seminars, conferences, public debates; provided advice and counseling; conducted, published and distributed books, flyers, brochures, software; developed own programs in partnership with Beia Consult International: http://www.beia-telecom.ro/bgi/

BEIA Consult International, is a R&D performing SME, founded in 1991, and one of the leading providers of ICT solutions and services in Romania for cloud communications and IoT telemetry. BEIA is ISO certified and has experience in coordinating, participating and evaluating in more than 40 R&D and Innovation projects (FP6, FP7, H2020, Eureka, etc.) 

BGI joined with the Competence Center of Beia Consult International, in order to offer Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) services in the field of service innovation, hardware, sensors, actuators, information technologies, data storage and processing (back end), interfaces, software (front end), integration, communication technologies / tele-systems, learning & training, standardization, communication / dissemination / marketing, business development, project management. 

We offer consultancy and implementing of solutions for IoT/ICT problems in the following domains: local and central administration, industry and agriculture, energy, environmental protection, public health, education and culture, national defense and intelligence. Digital technologies.

The Basque Digital Innovation Hub (BDIH) is a non-profit initiative that responds to the Basque Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) to support businesses in experimenting with digital and sustainable innovations.

Its main objective is to provide the Basque industry, particularly its SMEs, with easy and cost-efficient access to the Basque network of excellent, innovative scientific-technological assets and capabilities to advance from an efficient and socially sustainable way towards digitalisation.

The BDIH is structured as a public-private collaboration network composed of more than 30 organisations of the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network (universities, technology centres, advanced vocational training centres and business R&D units) and of strategic business partners.

These organisations are united in the form of a consortium, which provides services to the industrial ecosystem, especially SMEs, by connecting their resources (infrastructures, laboratories, equipment, software) and scientific-technological capabilities (people) around the priorities of the smart specialisation strategy (S3) of the Basque Country. The hub is co-owned by R+D Centers, Vocational Training Centers, Universities and Business R&D units and is supported by regional public institutions.

Currently, the technology services are structured around 8 nodes:

Flexible robotics
Additive Manufacturing
Cybersecurity
Advanced Materials
Digital electrical networks
Medical devices and digital health
Smart and Connected Machines
Data Driven Solutions

These nodes are work areas in which the BDIH organises the partners’ knowledge and technology.

Around these nodes, the BDIH has several strategic partners who support the Basque industry by providing a range of complementary services to train and develop skills, to provide support to find investments and to develop the innovation ecosystem and networking.

Test before invest

Technical and economic advice
Prototype and pilot development
Technology transfer

Skills and training

Awareness-raising events and videos
Training workshops
Training courses

Support to find investment

Partner search to access funding
Funding search

Innovation ecosystem and networking

Networking events
Signposting to commercial suppliers
Demonstrations and use cases
European partnerships

Link to national or regional initiatives for digitising industry

Smart Industry Strategy 

The Basque Region reviewed its RIS3 Smart Specialisation Strategy in 2020 which addresses areas of productive specialisation within the industrial network and technological capabilities of the Basque Country.

The Basque Digital Innovation Hub is one of the three Strategic Initiatives designed and implemented in the framework of this Smart Industry Regional Strategy.

National Working Group of Digital Innovation Hubs

The BDIH is also connected at national level as a member of the Working Group of Digital Innovation Hubs that the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government has promoted in the framework of its Connected Industry 4.0 Strategy (http://www.industriaconectada40.gob.es/Paginas/index.aspx ).

The objective of this national working group is to promote collaborative actions
interhub and to develop a complete portfolio of
services of the Spanish hubs.

European ecosystem connections

The BDIH is integrated into an exceptionally rich ecosystem, as highlighted by the broad panel of strategic partners or the links to other initiatives detailed below, in which the BDIH and its members are actively involved:

DIHNET.eu and I4MSGO
AIOTI CID Network
DIGIFED, AI REGIO and MIDIH
VANGUARD INITIATIVE
VARIOUS PARTNERSHIPS OF S3

In addition, the BDIH is actively collaborating with other (E)DIHs to enhance and maximise the capacities of the various industrial, economic and social Basque sectors.

 

 

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Barcelona Activa is the local economic development agency of the Barcelona City Council. It's mission to promote economic policies and local development to ensure a better quality of life for citizens by promoting employment, encouraging entrepreneurship, supporting companies and fostering innovation. Our principles are proximity to neighbourhoods, a plural economy and citizen empowerment.

Barcelona Activa’s Technology Park is a space for innovation and technology aimed at SMEs in the city, especially those companies that develop their own products in the technological and industrial field. Through different services and infrastructures that the Technology Park puts at the disposal of companies, the equipment contributes to facilitate the coexistence, development and transfer of technology and knowledge. Digital technologies.

FC Barcelona (non-profit organización) was founded in 1899 and it is democratically managed by its members (more than153.000 members). It is one of the most widely supported teams in the world and the club has one of the largest social media followers in the world among sports teams (more than 300 million followers). The active departments of FCB are: Football (men and woman), Football B (men and woman), Football U-19 (men), Beach soccer, Basketball, Basketball B, Wheelchair basketball, Handball, Roller hockey, Ice hockey, Rugby union, Rugby league, Futsal and Volleyball indoor (men and women). Espai Barça is the sports complex of FCB. The Espai has integrated harmoniously with the Les Corts neighbourhood, with a stadium that will fit around 105,000 spectators. It has a flexible and modern Palau Blaugrana with a capacity of 12,500 fans. It is intended to be an example of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Currently the Espai Barça has numerous sports facilities, such as the Camp Nou Stadium (owned by the club), Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper en San Juan Despí, La Masía, Mini Estadi, Palau Blaugrana, Palau Blaugrana 2, Palau de Gel and the Espacio Memorial Fútbol Club Barcelona.

The Fundación Fútbol Club Barcelona is the social, humanitarian, cultural and sports organization. It was created in 1994 with the aim of promoting and providing support to all those humanitarian entities. It also focuses on vulnerable children and adult communities. Initially the activities carried out by the foundation were materialized through donations from members, supporters and business entities of the country, being composed by members of honour, collaborators and protective members. In 2006 the Fundación Fútbol Club Barcelona took a new impulse, receiving that year, 0.7% of the ordinary profits of the club (2.2 million euros in 2008). It also adhered to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Plan, and for the first time the FCB included UNICEF advertising on their football kit. As part of its social management, the Fundaciò has collaborated with other governmental and social entities to promote children's education, sport, culture and health. Its main allies include UNICEF, UNESCO, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), among others.

BIHUB: The worldwide centre for sports knowledge and innovation is located physically at the same place as FCB , having access to all the installations, resources and services from the sport complex ESPAI BARÇA (medical centres, training facilities, control & management facilities, commercial facilities, etc.), which also includes the multidisciplinary team of experts from FCB, which includes, but are not limited to: doctors, industrial engineers, architects, athletes and coaches, among many others.

BIHUB is a platform open to society, a disruptive area where the sport industry can collaborate with all relevant stakeholders in the sport sector. All the facilities, spaces and innovations of the FCB are harmoniously integrated in a digitally way in the FCB’s HUB.

BIHUB is based on the fact that all the knowledge that the Club has generated over the years, on various subjects associated to sport, and not just football, can be shared, aiming to be the worldwide number one sports industry centre for knowledge and innovation, with the idea of creating value both for the Club and society in general.

BIHUB enables the Club to innovate, generate, attract, manage and share both its own and external knowledge, through the development of new products, services and experiences of value, and not just for the FCB, but also to other sports clubs, markets, and sectors. This platform also seeks to offer a laboratory for new ideas and projects, providing the perfect environment for prototyping and testing by FCB partners.

BIHUB forms an ecosystem to foster knowledge and innovation. This ecosystem is based on a model that promotes a culture of excellence, transparency, and openness and collaboration with prestigious brands, universities, research centres, start-ups, entrepreneurs, students, athletes, investors, and visionaries. Some examples of collaborations are:

• Gatorade (American manufacturer of sports-themed beverage and food products): Gatorade, together with the FCB, prepares the commercial launch of its personalized hydration kit for athletes, which includes smart bottle, app, connected weight, wearables and soluble formulas adapted to each users’ needs (more information here).

• Toshiba (Japanese company dedicated to the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment): FC Barcelona appoints Toshiba Medical Systems as his Official Medical Systems Partner (more information here).

The five knowledge areas of BIHUB are:

1. Team sports: Conceptualisation and study of the complexities of different sports disciplines, analysing the collective dynamics of team sports to improve an understanding of play. • Automation of tactical analysis.

2. Performance: Study and application of new techniques, methods, and technologies to improve training based on its model of play. • Personalized training: Monitoring load to improve performance, injury prevention & rehabilitation. • Monitoring functional training at gym. • New training methods to improve performance: hypoxic training. • Better fatigue control.

3. Medical services and nutrition: Application of medical research to the fields of injury prevention and recovery, nutrition, and hydration. • Better monitoring to prevent muscle and tendon injuries. • Improve injuries diagnose and prognosis with new medical image techniques. • Design the perfect snack for elite athletes. • Personalized rehabilitation. • Personalized hydration. • Use genetics profiles to personalize training.

4. Technology: Implementation of digital change and its impact on different areas of the Club, with a major focus on big data and performance tracking. • Ball tracking: indoor & outdoor. • Positional data tracking improvement. • Integration of tactical, performance and personal data (COR 2.0). • Brain training: cognitive abilities performance improvement. • Emotional data.

5. Social sciences: Study of all aspects of everyday sports management activities not purely related to the practice of high-performance sport. • Smart Infrastructure: New Wi-Fi services in the Stadium. New forms of energy generation. Collect significant user’s data in the facilities (IoT). New forms of security solutions. Generate, analyse and visualize operational data in a 3D integrated system. Life Style. Design new Innovation Spaces within sport facilities. • Fan Engagement:Enhance user experiences with VR solutions. Data Collection & Management to customize the fan experience. Develop a new eSports game that fits FCB values. Design new Social Networks applications that enables leveraging. • Social Impact: Sports for development initiatives that have an impact in children and youth populations.

The main sponsor of the FCB is RAKUTEN, an expert company in the digital sector, which provides synergies for BIHUB. Through BIHUB, the FCB has created a public-private investment maximizing ecosystem that allows investing in companies related to the sports/medicine/nutrition/technology/etc. sectors, developing products and services of internal applicability to the Club and comparably to the rest of the sector and the related ones. Digital technologies.

The information accumulating from the treatment of patients is a valuable data source. Globally, this information is often fragmented, outdated, and of low quality. Researchers and specialists need high-quality information to develop new drugs and forms of care, and to analyze the impact of the current forms of care.

 

A special unit at Turku University Hospital (TUH), Auria Clinical Informatics (ACI), provides Research as a Service (RaaS) for academic researchers and companies. Information sources used in the analysis combine patient data from the Turku University Hospital, hospital districts of Satakunta and Vaasa, and Auria Biobank – the first fully operational biobank in Finland. ACI has access to structural, textual, signal and imaging data that originates from the clinical processes. Together with the medical domain knowledge, advanced statistics, artificial intelligence and visual analytics, this provides a comprehensive ‘360-degree’ view of the patient care.

 

We offer expert services for defining, compiling and analyzing the data. Our RaaS service complies with good research practice and scientific practice by developing, among others, rigorous but enabling privacy policies for register research. In case that clients wish to perform data science themselves (or assisted by our skilled staff), ACI provides safe and efficient cloud computing environment at a dedicated hospital network cluster. This setup eliminates the need for copying and storing sensitive data at clients’ own servers; ACI will take care of all the legal and technical aspects of information security. Currently, the computing environment of ACI has machine learning capabilities through Python, R and ordinary CPU by default. GPU computing is provided as an option through the Finnish CSC IT Center for Science Ltd.

 

ACI is part of a larger healthcare development ecosystem Health Campus Turku (HCT). The ecosystem forms a significant multidisciplinary knowledge cluster within medicine, social and health care, and technology, offering unique opportunities for research, innovation and corporate collaboration. Health Campus Turku collaboration involves the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Novia University of Applied Sciences and Turku Science Park Ltd. Digital technologies.

As the Innovation Hub for the Greater Nantes economic and University area, Atlanpole plays a key role within the main multidisciplinary area of innovation in Western France.

Atlanpole is the science based business incubator for the whole region Pays de la Loire. As a EU-BIC and the reference point of contact for two thematic French Tech networks, it fosters the emergence, creation and development of innovative companies, of start-up companies and of small and medium sized enterprises ( beyond 300 companies in the past 20 years, with a 90% start-up 5 years survival rate).

A long time member of both EBN and IASP Innovation networks, Technopole of the Nantes University basin, Atlanpole is the “driving force” of the Greater Nantes Area of Innovation, comprising more than 460 companies, several Sciences Parks, incubators, accelerators, and connecting all Western France innovative clusters from various fields (Digital, Advanced Manufacturing, Biotech, Agrofood, Clean Tech, …) :  Atlanpole is the operational relay in Pays de la Loire region of "Images & Réseaux" , the Western France digital cluster and  the Sea cluster  "Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique" as well. Atlanpole has developed since its origin strong operational partnership with "Pôle EMC2", the Advanced Manufacturing cluster, and is providing full support to the  Western France Bio-Cluster, Atlanpole Biotherapies.  Digital technologies.

The mission of Athena RC is to conduct outstanding research in Informatics and Computational Sciences with substantial social impact, addressing both global challenges and local needs. Athena RC explores a broad spectrum of research areas within the ICT field, as well as topics raised by other scientific fields, industry needs, or societal challenges. Athena RC covers the research and innovation lifecycle end-to-end, commencing from basic and applied research, moving on to system and product prototyping and infrastructure service provision, and wrapping up with technology-transfer and entrepreneurship-enabling initiatives. In a nutshell, Athena RC aspires to create new knowledge and conceive ground-breaking solutions and technologies for the digital era. Its competitive advantage lies in the unique amalgama of skills and know-how of both its research and scientific staff that has already earned it national and international reputation and acclaim.

Further to research, innovation is also a fundamental pillar of Athena RC’s mission. Its several Research Institutes, Units, Spin-off companies and particularly its dedicated innovation-support Unit (Corallia) create a fertile technological innovation ecosystem and intensify systematic efforts to bring to market research and technological results.

In particular, Corallia is a multi-Cluster facilitator, incubator and youth entrepreneurship accelerator. It coordinates 3 innovation clusters with more than 170 members: the gi-Cluster (gaming & creative technologies & applications cluster), the mi-Cluster (microelectronics-based systems & IOT applications cluster) and the si-Cluster (space technologies & applications cluster), and is awarded with the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence; it operates 2 thematic Business Innovation Centres (BICs): the α2-innohub in Athens and the π1-innohub in Patras that have been awarded with the EBN EU|BIC certificate for quality business support; and implements a series of initiatives to stimulate youth entrepreneurship with partners and donors: the most prominent Accelerator in Greece the egg in cooperation with Eurobank, the Educational Trip in cooperation with student associations at highly acknowledged universities worldwide, Hackathons, Career Days, Internships Days, Networking Days, etc.

Athena RC has presence in three cities across Greece (Athens, Patras and Xanthi), has been awarded with an ISO 9001:2015 certificate by TUV NORD CERT for the management programmes, measures and actions as final beneficiary of Operational Programmes, the design and maturing of programmes and projects, the schedule, implementation, monitoring, control and validation of project deliverables and the management of State Aid Programmes and is an actor in and partner of the regional plans conducted by political, academic, economic and societal entities. Digital technologies.