VIRTUAL VEHICLE is a leading international research and development center for the automotive and rail industries, located in Graz, Austria. The center focuses on the advanced virtualization of development. An essential element is the linking of numerical simulations and hardware testing which leads to a powerful HW-SW system design.

VIRTUAL VEHICLE’s international partner network consists of:

80+ international industrial partners (OEMs, Tier 1 & Tier 2 suppliers, software vendors)
40+ international scientific institutions

VIRTUAL VEHICLE is the largest COMET funded research center and is also active in 30+ EU-projects. Furthermore, VIRTUAL VEHICLE offers a broad portfolio of contract research for the vehicle development. Digital technologies.

ViDIH unites business oriented clusters, innovative high-tech companies and research institutions. ViDIH aims to become a strong intersectoral DIH at North-Easter Europe level, developing the activities in these four areas: IT technologies Photonics, laser, space, telecomunications, scientific publishing and advanced manufacturing Consulting on access to funding, and the access to finance of implementation of digital solutions Relations with industry ViDIH has strong expertise in Big Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and applications for process control in various market verticals (photonics, laser, space, telecomunications, scientific publishing and advanced manufacturing) aiming to combine practical hands-on solutions and consulting activities with strengtened skills. Apart from mobilising business, technical and social capital to promote digitization locally, ViDIH would be very much interested in collaborating with other DIHs nationally and EU-wide. DIH coordinator – VITP (Visoriai information technology park) is an experienced non profit organisation with 16 years of successful project management history and advanced network of collaboration in Santara Valley (Life Science, ICT, information technology development at Santara Valley is coordinated by VITP). There are partnerships with Vilnius University in areas of Mathematics and Informatics; R&D and technology transfer activities focus on (together with Vilnius Gediminas Technical University): industrial and business software development; recognition processes, data analysis and multi-modal optimization of multimedia technologies; tagging and contextual search of scientific information; development of new medical devices. Services Provided Businesses need to understand which technologies to invest in, when to invest and to what extent. ViDIH helps businesses and technology companies to become more competitive by means of digital technology. ViDIH allows any business to access the latest knowledge, expertise and technology for testing and experimenting with digital innovations. ViDIH provides connections with investors, facilitates access to funding, and helps connect suppliers and users of digital technologies. Present network allows ViDIH to provide full range of DIH services: awareness creation; ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking; visioning and strategy development for businesses; collaborative research; concept validation and prototyping; testing and validation; pre-competitive series production; commercial infrastructure; digital maturity assessment; incubator/accelerator support; voice of the customer, product consortia; market intelligence; access to funding and investor readiness services; mentoring. Digital technologies.

ViaMéca is a « pôle de compétitivité » (innovation hub) devoted to the "design, production and integration of intelligent mechanical systems". ViaMéca collaborative projects as well as scientific knowledge deal with :

- Surface Engineering and Manufacturing

- Advanced Manufacturing Processes

- Robotic and Productive Systems

- Engineering driven by uses and servitization Digital technologies.

Ventspils High Technology Park, Foundation is identified among two existing Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) in Latvia. DIH in Ventspils helps regional companies to become more competitive by improving their business processes as well as services and products by means of digital technology. In broad terms, the services available through DIH in Ventspils may be categorised as:

Awareness and Skills Creation
Knowledge and Networks
Co-creation Infrastructure
Collaborative Research
Business Development

The market sectors covered by DIH in Ventspils today include high-tech and mid-tech manufacturing industries (e.g., ICT, machinery and equipment, electrical and optical equipment). We plan to upgrade existing DIH in Ventspils by meeting wider needs of regional economy and setting-up the fully operational DIH in specific ICT competencies (robotics and automation) and Edtech.

A more detailed description of the services available through DIH in Ventspils is available below.

 

Awareness and Skills Creation

Awareness and Skills Creation services include:

Creating awareness around Digital Technologies. We engage within business community to create awareness of the opportunities and benefits of digitisation.
Identifying technologies that enable companies to remain competitive.
Showcasing the best practices and technologies through success stories how companies can digitise their processes, products or business models.
Providing training both to technical specialists and management.
Building local eco-system by networking developers, educational organisations, companies, governmental, municipal and support institutions within region to digitalise industries.

 

Knowledge and Networks

Knowledge and Networks services include:

Assessment of the potential of digital technologies (audits).
Innovation scouting, and access to specialist expertise.
Having identified needs, we work with the client to find solutions for digitisation.

We provide up-to-date knowledge and sector specific expertise, technology expertise and business model expertise. Our innovation experts offer consultations in innovation management, latest technologies, business trends, effective use of digital marketing channels, including social media.

We apply different types of innovation framework of building breakthroughs. Creating new products is only one way to innovate. DIH experts identify new opportunities beyond products and develop viable innovations (profit model, network, service, process, customer engagement, etc.)

Being part of a larger innovation ecosystem, DIH in Ventspils provides access to the services, facilities and expertise of a wide range of partners.  We link-up with other innovation hubs to improve collaboration, reinforce specialization and offer the best possible support for our clients.

 

Co-creation Infrastructure

We provide co-creation infrastructure to support maker culture, maker movement, grassroots digital fabrication and community-based innovations. We provide equipment, instruction, and support and build community for the purposes of enabling community members to design, prototype and create solutions that wouldn’t be possible to create with the resources available to individuals working alone.  We organise and provide:

Instruction to significantly increase community coverage and number of users involved in innovations, technology design and fabrication.
Tools and physical environment where individuals and start-ups can experiment and learn with others through hands-on involvement and self-directed projects.
Access to municipality support and consultations, as well as access to networks, funding and open­-source designs, tutorials, and workshops globally.

 

Collaborative Research

Collaborative Research services include:

Implementation of collaborative research projects in close co-operation with experts from Ventspils University of Applied Sciences and companies within region.
Collaboration with other DIHs in Europe is an essential part of innovation projects.
Help to companies through supporting design and fabrication of new products (e.g. concept validation, prototyping, technology testing and validation, pre-competitive series production).

 

Business Development

Business development services include:

Visioning and Strategy Development for digitisation. Working with the clients to envision their digital future and develop a strategy for delivering this vision.
Brokering/matchmaking.
Business coaching & mentoring.
Access to funding and investments. Helping SMEs and start-ups to access regional, national and/or European funding to make use of new technologies. Assisting SMEs to explain their strategies to banks and private investors.
Investor readiness and growth services.
Digital technologies.

The mission of the VDTC is to explore and promote the role of human operators in an ever-increasing digitized and automated production and work environment. Following an approach coined as “Digital Engineering and Operation”, the VDTC postulates the consistent and consequent use of digital data throughout the life cycle of a production and/or work system. Being able to fully retain and exploit data from and within all steps in the life cycle, from design, to testing, documentation, factory planning, training, operation to dismantling, offers the opportunity to radically change human machine interaction. The VDTC offers solutions for embedding human operators in a digitized and automated environment by providing assistance systems, which fully benefit from a virtual knowledge base established through the approach of digital engineering and operation.
Within this mission, the VDTC offers its services to companies of varying sizes from SME and Mid-Caps to large companies and international corporations. The VDTC’s solutions, moreover, provide for different customized approaches addressing companies on different innovation stages, from awareness raising and maturity level identification for newcomers to digitization, to insular solutions and services for starter companies, to full systems solutions for advanced companies. Digital technologies.

• The Electrum Foundation in Kista Sciene City realized the disruptive effect of digitization and decided to adapt and develop the collaboration by opening up and evolve from triple helix to quadruple helix by adding the individual/citizen/end-user. The result is an open testbed and co-creation arena where the possibilities of digitization can be developed, tested and show cased in an urban environment. • Fully equipped testbed with wired and wireless technologies - 5G, 4G, 3G, 2G, WiFI, 6LoWPAN, LoRa WAN, fiber - digital platforms for innovation – Bluemix, City Digital Platform, Urban Drone Platform, MediaSense - mentorspace, events, networks, projects, workshops, seminars. • Urban ICT Arena works like a huge potluck where everyone contributes with what they have and share it with the community. Together we form a great digital smorgasboard (buffe) where you can meet new partners, try new technologies and develop the future together. • A Project Owner can come with a Founding and Supporting partner and run a project free of charge. A project owner who comes alone must pay an administrative fee of 2 000 Euro per twelve months. • A project in Urban ICT Arena must be able to show how it contributes to one or more of our three overall aims; Sustainable cities, Secure future jobs, Strengthen innovation in the region. The project has to relate to the eight digital sustainable goals and give something suitable from the project to the community. (what need was solved)? • Urban ICT Arena can help to write project plan, give access IT Infrastructure provider of choice and relevant networks and also organize workshops. Digital technologies.

The University of Valencia Science Park DIH aims to create the best conditions to strive for the long-term business success of companies and organisations from the Valencian region by putting innovation and digital opportunities to good use.

To this end, the University of Valencia Science Park DIH places at companies and organisations’ disposal a set of services targeted to digitise their products, services and processes, as well as specially equipped premises for them to set up and perform their activity, consolidation and growth. The University of Valencia Science Park DIH services come in five areas:

Creating the ecosystem: information, training, networking and financing services, providing entrepreneurs with infrastructures, and support to identify and establish synergies among knowledge providers, companies and organisations, and to also back the Valencian innovative ecosystem
Digitising business processes: Consultancy and implementing software solutions for strategic business management (Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard), day-to-day management (ERP), document management and commercial management (CRM, eCommerce)
Automating production processes: Analysing the level of digitising and automation; accompanying the whole process; providing equipment for automation, sensors and other mechanisms to control processes.
Applying satellite data: Employing satellite data and other sources, with applications in areas like agriculture, forestry development and environmental conservation, and for fighting against climate change
Managing digital health: Application of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, modelling, digital simulation and other technological tools in areas like functional nutrition, precise medical diagnosis and efficient health

In order to offer this wide range of services, the University of Valencia Science Park DIH is backed by the University of Valencia Science Park’s development and infrastructure, and by organisation and team of the University of Valencia Science Park Foundation (FPCUV), which is in charge of managing the Science Park’s business area.

The University of Valencia Science Park (PCUV) is an initiative that links university research and its scientific potential with the production system by encouraging innovation processes, and by generating and consolidating science/technology-based companies in the Valencian region.

The PCUV provides spaces and services to companies that derive from university research (spin-offs) and to external scientific technology-based companies that wish to enter a research, technological development and innovation setting. Its scientific area is made up of seven research institutes, two singular centres and major research infrastructure, as well as a business area covering a surface area of 26,700 m2, which represents 40% of the Science Park’s built area. It is divided into three building blocks (Building 1SC, Building BIOTEC and Building CUE) with offices and different sized labs that provide various services, one business incubator, and three coworking spaces (Business Incubators), one of which is located on the Tarongers campus. The business area currently hosts almost 100 companies, including different spin-offs. In this space they find a suitable ecosystem in which to generate and develop ideas and innovative projects. The most important sectors are Biotechnology and Information and Communication Technologies (ITC), and Energy, Nanotechnology and Advanced Services are also present.

The University of Valencia Science Park Foundation (FPCUV) works as a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates innovation for technology-based companies. This institution is in charge of managing the business area by providing services to those hosted there. It was created in 2009, and its founding sponsors were Fundación Bancaja, Banco Santander, the Valencian Chamber of Commerce and the Valencian Business Confederation, as well as the University of Valencia.

Some FPCUV objectives are to:

Promote technological development, knowledge transfer and industrial innovation.
Encourage research into matters of social importance locally, nationwide and internationally.
Establish cooperation between University of Valencia research groups and companies.
Create new innovative companies by facilitating alliances with strategic partners.
Encourage the transfer and diffusion of university research results.
Contribute to improve companies’ competitiveness and the Valencian Community’s development.

The FPCUV is a member of rePCV (Network of Valencian Science Parks), APTE (the Spanish National Association of Science and Technology Parks), RedEmprendia (the Ibero-American University Network of Business Incubators) and IASP (the International Association of Science Parks). It also has relations with different international parks.

  Digital technologies.

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

The aim of UDIH 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

Digital technologies.

Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute employs over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, with a full-time graduate cohort of 135 students generating over 230 peer-reviewed publications each year. Tyndall National Institute is leading in integrated ICT hardware and systems. Specialising in both electronics and photonics – materials, devices, circuits and systems – we are globally leading in our core research areas of: Smart sensors and systems Optical communication systems Mixed signal and analog circuit design Microelectronic and photonic integration Semiconductor wafer fabrication Nano materials and device processing Central to our mission is delivering economic impact through research excellence. We work with industry and academia to transform research into products in our core market areas of electronics, communications, energy, health, agri-food and the environment. We generate approximately €30m in income each year, with over 85% coming from competitively won contracts. With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, we are focused on delivering real impact from our excellent research. Our ambitious 5-year strategic plan, developed in 2013, sets out a clear strategy to create employment and build critical mass within the Irish technology space. Digital technologies.

Trentino DIH was established by an agreement of cooperation signed by Confindustria Regionale Trentino-Alto Adige, Confindustria Trento, Assoimprenditori Alto Adige, Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT) 

 

HIT is a consortium and non-lucrative company that promotes the results of research and innovation in the Trentino system in order to support the development of the local economy.

We ensure that Trentino and its companies can benefit with the innovation deriving from the results of scientific research and new entrepreneurship attractiveness of our members

Mission
Promoting the results of scientific research in Trentino through technology transfer activities to private companies and investors
Supporting stakeholders and Trentino companies in innovation processes and internationalisation in national and European networks (eg Cluster Technologies, KIC, Technology Platforms)
Stimulating integrated training, infrastructures, skills and services to accelerate innovative and highly technological businesses.

HIT Stakeholders

Fondazione Bruno Kessler is a research Institute with 2 scientific poles, 7 research centres and more than 400 researchers which aims for excellence in science and technology with particular regard to interdisciplinary approaches and application dimension.
Università degli Studi di Trento is the university of the Province of Trento, with more than 16,000 students, about 600 professors and researchers, 10 departments and 60 research laboratories that offer an ideal study and research environment.

Fondazione Edmund Mach conducts scientific research, education and training, experimentation, consulting and business services in the agricultural, agri-food and environmental branches.

Trentino Sviluppo is the Agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento devoted topromote the sustainable and innovative development of the territory, through actions and services aimed to support the growth of entrepreneurship and the ability to innovate. Digital technologies.