Holst Centre is an independent R&D center that develops technologies for wireless autonomous sensor technologies and flexible electronics, in an open innovation setting and in dedicated research trajectories. A key feature of Holst Centre is its partnership model with industry and academia based around roadmaps and programs. It is this kind of cross-fertilization that enables Holst Centre to tune its scientific strategy to industrial needs. Holst Centre was set up by imec and TNO and is supported by national and regional government. Digital technologies.

The DIH 'TPC-NL' is specialised in automated tape processing for TPC componenents and materials testing. TPC-NL enables enterprises to develop new materials with ground breaking properties (saving weight a.o.) by developing automated application of this new group of materials.

Focus areas are: Automation, Recycling, Insert Moulding. TPAC: Applied and industrial research for SME applications TPRC: Fundamental and precompetitive research.

  Digital technologies.

The KTH Innovation Hub on Industrial Digitalization is hosted by the Mechatronics and Embedded Control Systems Division at KTH and we are also closely associated with the ICES Competence Center at KTH. The Stockholm based Innovation Hub is aiming to become an active core of the Sweden innovation ecosystem related to CPS and IIoT. We are located in the intersection between industry, academic research and education, as well as a multitude of innovation actors. As part of KTH we also have a large international network to leverage.

The Hub servces as a front desk providing an single entry point for a number of different services;

- Rapid Prototyping / Addative Manufacturing

- Testbeds

- Business Coaching and Funding altenatives

 

As part of the FED4SAE initiative, the HUB supports SME by coaching and funding Application Experiments. Digital technologies.

The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult is the catalyst for the future growth and success of advanced manufacturing in the UK. Our 7 Technology and Innovation centres work with companies of all sizes to bridge the gap in – and accelerate the activity between – technology concept and commercialisation. Our centres offer access to leading edge equipment, expertise and an environment of company collaboration. Digital technologies.

The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is part of the AMRC Group, a cluster of world-class centres for industry-focused research and development of technologies used in high-value manufacturing sectors.

The group has specialist expertise in machining, casting, welding, powder metallurgy, composites, designing for manufacturing, testing and training.

It has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and has become a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry, worldwide.

The AMRC has always developed technologies for a large range of companies and by selecting emerging technologies from University spin out organizations we often link the SME's to the global companies.
The UK has always specialized in the bespoke or niche markets and the AMRC has deliberately targeted this traditional manufacturing sector to enhance their product quality and the technologies deployed without removing the artisan element from the product. In Sheffield, there is an emerging Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District, with the AMRC as its nucleus institution. Rolls-Royce, McLaren, and Boeing are just three of the global brands who are investing in production in this nascent innovation district. Smaller, dynamic innovators, like Performance Engineered Solutions and Iceotope have also set up shop in the region, keen to be close to the capabilities and experience of the AMRC Digital technologies.

TeraLab is an AI and big data platform for education, research, and innovation, a fully owned subsidiary of IMT, a leading French engineering school.

TeraLab was launched as a winner project of the 2012 big data call of the French Investment for the Future scheme (5.6 million euros).  TeraLab has been operational since 2014 and has conducted over 60 projects in a variety of fields, with a focus on industry, healthcare, and cybersecurity.

TeraLab is a non-profit with hybrid funding, coming both from competitve projects (regional, national, and European) and private clients (SMEs or larger companies).

Its mission is to accelerate data-driven innovation of companies and institutions, as well as by providing infrastructure, architecture, tools, access to data, and an ecosystem of talent, research, and training.

TeraLab expertise lies in data sharing and AI tools via its own data infrastructure, and technology transfer via IMT research labs. TeraLab has developed infrastructure that allows sharing and experimenting with data in secure, neutral, and trusted environment. This infrastructure comprises technical, legal, and human elements, can be installed with different levels of security, depending on the project needs, and is well suited for sensitive data such as healthcare data. Technological factor includes types of infrastructure, user access control, data encryption and anonymization methods, cybersecurity, and technical support. Legal factor includes legal framework adapted for each project. Human factor includes procedures to access and manipulate data before, during, and after the project for data sponsors, owners, and data scientists.

Services provided include ecosystem building (community building, strategy development, ecosystem management); business (identification of opportunities, access to skills and training, via IMT labs and training efforts, such as MOOCs, summer and winter schools, and the Franco-German Academy for the Industry of the Future); and technology services (data infrastructure, support to innovation and R&D, POCs, testing and validation).

TeraLab has strong links on regional, national, and European level. Regionally, in Greater Paris region, TeraLab has strong relations with regional clusters (Cap Digital, Systematic, Medicen), which play an important part in our ecosystem to access startups and SMEs. Nationally, we are partners with the Hub France IA, and are involved in projects in Brittany (cybersecurity) and Northern France (industry), among others.

As a DIH, its mission is to accelerate data-driven innovation by providing infrastructure, architecture, tools, access to data sharing facilities, and an ecosystem of talent, research, and training. Examples include regional projects (PackIA), national (contribution to the French AI strategy), bilateral (the French-German Academy for the Industry of the Future, the Joint AI Platform, GAIA-X), and European (AI4EU, Boost 4.0, MIDIH, PULSE, METRICS, ASSISTANT, EUHubs4Data).

TeraLab is one of the 30 European AI DIHs and part of select AI DIH Network. TeraLab holds a BDVA European “Silver i-Space” label, and is the French Hub of IDSA. Digital technologies.

TecnoCampus is a technology park  based in a doble strategy: University + Business Park .

TecnoCampus technology park supports Mataró’s industrial fabric. It acts as an incubator for new businesses and hosts companies in the TCM2 and TCM3 buildings, which are both fully occupied.The business Park  is home to several companies and fosters entrepreneurship. In addition, there is also a conference centre(TCM4) for event with a capacity for 350 people.

remarkable figures:

3,556 Daily users of TecnoCampus Park
85 Companies created
641 Companies in growth programs
120 Companies located

Technology Based Incubator
· 16 plug- and-play offices of 23-30-55m2
· Co-working full equipped.
· Accelerator program: business experts + technical experts +
connectors + investors.
· Fund-raising service and club of investors
· Training (business model, social media, finances, coding...)
· Growth strategy and internationalization services. 
· Meeting rooms and coffee room with networking area.

Technology Center:

TecnoCampus has the most important technology center of the region EURECAT, resulting from the integration of Ascamm, Barcelona Media, Barcelona Digital, Cetemmsa and CTM. Eurecat can offer the most important research and development in: smart textile, media and digital technologies, robotics and innovative materials

TecnoCampusuniversity studies .University campus in numbers: 

3.200 Students
8 Postgraduates Studies

220 Teaching & research staff
15 Degrees
TecnoCampus offers official Bachelor and Postgraduate
university studies. The range of academic courses offered
are divided between three university centres affiliated to
the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). The UPF is Spain’s
top university and one of the top 15 in Europe according
to the U-Multirank league table prepared by the EU.

 

10 reasons for betting on TecnoCampus: 

1. Perfectly connected with
Barcelona business ecosystem: Key
companies, Key institutions, Key
people and Key investors
2. A unique model: university
centres and companies sharing
the same location.
3. Entrepreneurial DNA: acceleration
services for start-ups, and
"pre-seed" services for students
with innovative business ideas.
4. Soft landing service for international
companies in our business park
fitted with modern facilities and
state-of-the-art equipment.
5. An unbeatable setting right on
the seafront, excellent transport
connections.
6. Market-oriented and creative
entrepreneurial model.
7. Closely connected with Venture
Capital and Business Angels
Network.
8. Important international network
with the most important European
technology parks offering key
business connections and business
landing opportunities.
9. Synergies between different
Clusters: Health, ICT and textile.
Experts, investors and successful
companies giving support
to new start-ups.
10. Perfect matching between
innovative business and
Mediterranean style of life:
seafront, gastronomy, sports
and good people hand in hand
with talent, funding and key
business connections. Digital technologies.

Started in 2013, the initiative TETRACOM (https://www.tetracom.eu) was designed as a pilot project with a novel and unique vehicle to boost small-scale and highly focused bilateral academia-industry technology transfer in all ICT domains. During its three-year pilot phase, it has strongly demonstrated how to optimally address the gap to bring academic excellence to sound business results. With a special focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, the pilot financially supported 50 actual transfer experiments throughout Europe and helped to generate a multitude of new jobs, new products and new businesses. Based on its highly recognized success TETRACOM has evolved into TETRAMAX, operating at much larger scale and with even higher ambitions (https://www.tetramax.eu). It is primary aiming to provide the implementation of the European “Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE)” initiative in the domain of customized low energy computing (CLEC) for CPS and the IoT. The initiative builds on three major activity lines: (1) Stimulating, organizing, co-funding, and evaluating different types of cross-border Application Experiments, providing “EU added value” via innovative CLEC technologies to first-time users and broad markets in European ICT-related industries, (2) Building and leveraging a new European CLEC competence center network, offering technology brokerage, one-stop shop assistance and CLEC training to SMEs and mid-caps, and with a clear evolution path towards new regional digital innovation hubs where needed, and (3) Paving the way towards self-sustainability based on pragmatic and customized long-term business plans. The project impact will be measured based on well-defined, goal-oriented performance indicators. The immediate ambition of TETRAMAX within its duration is to support 50+ industry clients and 3rd parties in the entire EU with innovative technologies, leading to an estimated revenue increase of 25 Mio. € based on 50+ new or improved CLEC-based products, 10+ entirely new businesses/SMEs initiated, as well as 30+ new permanent jobs and significant cost and energy savings in product manufacturing. Moreover, in the long term, TETRAMAX will be the trailblazer towards a reinforced, profitable, and sustainable ecosystem infrastructure, providing CLEC competence, services (https://www.tetramax.eu/the-project/​) and a continuous innovation stream at European scale, yet with strong regional presence as preferred by SMEs. Digital technologies.

The Digital Innovation Hub Technologies for Efficiency (T4E DIH) is a physical and virtual space in which actions and services of the different agents of Extremadura are concentrated for the development and improvement of products and productive and business processes, through the use of technology.
T4E DIH is a networking initiative without formal structure, non-profit in whose germ the Public-Private Foundation Fundecyt Science and Technology Park Extremadura (www.fundecyt-pctex.es). We work directly on the field supporting the Science, Technology and Innovation System of Extremadura with a focus on the new trends and digital strategies that are being developed in Europe. To do so, we offer the following services aimed at the Innovation System, companies present at the Ecosystem and entrepreneurs to help them in the transition towards digitalization. We work very closed with digital competence centers as the Foundation Cenits-Computaex (www.centis.es),  CETA-CIEMAT (https://www.ceta-ciemat.es ) University of Extremadura (https://www.unex.es/) and key players in our region such as the Association of Information and Communication Technologies Companies in Extremadura, (www.AEXTIC.com)

T4E DIH is framed in the Initiative for the Digitization of European Industry (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-digiti…).

Challenges and services of T4E DIH

The catalogue of services of T4E DIH responds to the following challenges: Efficiency concept  is a key factor for competitiveness in the four areas that shape the technological orientation challenges for Extremadura's DIH: Energy, Ecology (environmental), Equality, Economy. 

Energy Challenge : energy efficiency, as the main source of cost reduction facing the industry, and which also represents an important contribution to reducing the carbon footprint of production and, thereby, reducing its impact on the environment. In the same way, the integration of productive systems with energy generation systems, following circular economy models, is key for the translation of productive projects to countries with low quality of energy supply.

Technological solutions: new sources of energy, monitoring of energy expenditure, power electronics, energy storage, distributed energy models, are some examples of specific technical challenges that are included in this field. Internet of Things (e.g. connected devices, sensors and actuators networks). Robotics and autonomous systems.High Perfortmance Computing (HPC) 

Ecology Challenge (Environmental): the environment is considered by the current economists as the fourth factor of production. Consciousness of the limit in the use of resources supposes a restriction, more and more generalized, to industrial development and that changes the paradigm of productivity, typical of an oil-based economy, by a new paradigm, that of sustainability, owner of a new economic model that looks for renewable sources and that tries to optimize the biological and biotechnological processes for industrial uses. At present, the lack of productivity of biological resources and processes is the main challenge facing science and technology, leading to a progressive process of transition from an economy of fossil sources to a bio-economy.Traceability, the reduction of distribution chains and the reduction of transport needs and, above all, the hybridization between computer and electronic technologies with the life sciences, giving rise to so-called "omics" as enabling technologies Key (KETs, by its abbreviations in English, Key Enabling Technologies) that will probably provide the main disruptive innovations of the next years, are challenges and technological domains that must be present in the offer of services of the Hub.

Technological solutions: Technologies for efficiency in agriculture (high precision farming, drones or UAVs, irrigation systems by telemetry, automatized meteorological stations); technologies for efficiency in livestock etc..

Equality Challenge : the concept of equality, or equity, refers to the social dimension of economic activity, and is a gap that is becoming increasingly large between the North and the South, even within the developed societies, giving rise to some of the most pressing problems, such as migration processes, or demographic imbalances. The development of products for the Base of the Pyramid, that is, for that large percentage of the population that lives on less than two dollars a day, integrated solutions for the socio-economic development of the communities, or the use of technology with a source of rights , and services that improve the quality of life of the population, as well as the improvement of productive processes that facilitate the reconciliation of personal and professional life or skilled work from rural areas, are challenges to which digitization can contribute.

Technological solutions : Platform for responsible production and consumption; technologies for distribution and sales; technologies to improve health; work flexibility, teleworking and e-learning; robotic assistance systems

Economy Challenge : in the sense of "economy class" or "low cost" are tendencies that require efforts of efficiency in the use of resources, or in the redesign of processes so that competitiveness does not depend on the low cost of labour or environmentally unsustainable processes. European industry faces these market trends, and competition from countries with lower quality, environmental or labor standards; one option is to leave these market segments, but without them it will be difficult to converge with 20% of industrial GDP, the reindustrialization of Europe also means making companies that operate in traditional sectors where prices make a difference competitive, without the best alternative being the delocalisation of production and the focus on services, both design and development and marketing, because these activities are also less inclusive in terms of employment than productive activities.

Technological solutions Process reengineering, lean manufacturing, industry 4.0. applied to value chains, the reduction of intermediaries, the robotization of processes, the generation of large economies of scale through industrial symbiosis, competitive intelligence are some of the keys to improving efficiency in business processes that facilitate competitiveness in markets with reduced margins.Industrial robots; automatized warehouses and inventory management systems;digital manufacturing techniques, new manufacturing processes; lean manufacturing, energy saving systems in industry; energy storage systems; hybrid and electric vehicles;new materials; virtual and augmented reality Digital technologies.

The first Shared Smart Factory with a shared backbone for Smart Manufacturing, incubators en services. Next to that Added offers an in house facility for Hogeschool Stenden and educational institutes Digital technologies.