OPEN DEI Webinar "Business opportunities for Digital Transformation through the ecosystem of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe" 14 May 2020 Carmen Polcaro (Innovalia)

1. The landscape of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe
OPEN DEI PRESENTATION
Carmen Polcaro (Innovalia)
14th May 2020
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OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.

2. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
Agenda
Introduction
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DIHs concept02
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European landscape of DIH initiatives in 4
domains
04 Business opportunities supported by OPEN DEI

3. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
DIH what is this? [1]
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[1]
[1]A DIH is a regional multi-partner cooperation between organizations like research centres,
universities, industry associations, incubator/accelerators, regional development agencies and
even governments.
As proximity is considered crucial, they act as a first regional point of contact, a doorway, and
strengthen the innovation ecosystem.
Skills and
Training
Innovation
Ecosystem &
Networking
Test before
Invest
Support to
find
investments
Digital Innovation Hubs
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-innovation-hubs

4. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
DIHs Network
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• In the execution process not every DIH provide all the services or even all the
sub-services in a category, since DIHs tend to specialise in one expertise. [2]
• DIH Network creation is needed to diffuse and increase the efficiency of the
Digital transformation by: [3]
• Sharing a common methodology;
• Creating of new collaborative services for customers:
• Sharing of facilities and mobilisation of expertise;
• Develop of new service;
• Advisor of match-making services with DIH from same Network.
[2]https://ai-dih-network.eu/project.html
[3]EC-ICT2018H2020-DigitalInnovationHubsnowandinthefuture

5. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
DIHs Impact in Europe [4]
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From 2016 to 2020 the EU is investing €100 million per year to support networking
between different DIHs across Europe to help SMEs and mid-caps go digital.
More than 150 Digital Innovation Hubs and 500 Start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps have
taken part so far in 370 different innovation experiments where companies tested
digital innovations in collaboration with DIHs
Approximately 2000 innovative SMEs across Europe have received this kind of support
from the EU through the DIHs to accomplish their digital transformation.
Thanks to the support of the European Commission, a network of DIHs has been
developed in more than 25 countries in Europe, such as Spain, Italy, France, Be,
Germany, Netherlands, etc.
[4]https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/commissioner-gabriel-calls-central-
and-eastern-european-countries-increase-support-digital

6. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
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Initiatives across Europe in Network creation
▪ EU initiatives and projects are shaping the pan-European
network of DIHs through digital transformation technologies: [5]
▪ ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS);
▪ Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE);
▪ DIHNET.EU
▪ Artificial Intelligent (AI) DIH Network;
▪ Robotics Digital Innovation Network.
▪ AIOTI
▪ IDSA Hubs network;
▪ FiIWARE iHUBS
[5]https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-innovation-hubs

7. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
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Manufacturing
AgriFood Energy
Healthcare
DIHs initiatives across domains

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through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
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DIHs across domains
Manufacturing
AgriFood Energy
Healthcare
Vertical focus
Tech focus

9. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
DIHs technologies
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HPCCybersecurityAI Cloud
DIH Network
Pubic
admnistrations
SMEs
Industrial IoT Robotics
[2]EC-ICT2018H2020-DigitalInnovationHubsnowandinthefuture
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10. OPENDEI Webinar sessions Business opportunities for digital transformation
through the ecosystem of digital innovation hub in Europe.
The landscape of the Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe is
complex and diverse.
Business opportunities offered by OPEN DEI
GUIDANCE for a faster navigation through
the landscape
SUPPORT successful partnerships through
the ecosystem.
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ENSURE easier engagement with the right
DIH partners.

11. For More Information
Manufacturing
Ambassador
Carmen Polcaro
cpolcaro@innovalia.org
Contact us!
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Healthcare
Ambassador
Luc Nicolas
luc.nicolas@ehtel.eu
AgriFood
Ambassador
Marianna Faraldi
m.faraldi@tecnoalimenti.com
Energy
Ambassador
Alberto Dognini
adognini@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de