ETICOM, is a business association with more than 300 companies, associated organizations and collaborators, non-profit. ETICOM is the cluster of the Digital Economy in Andalusia, one of the most important ICT and content groups in Spain. Its purpose is to defend the interests of entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and since 1999.

 ETICOM has developed its own formation path, - ETICOM Corporate University - where offer masters, formation and capability courses accompanied of our associated, providing since 2001 best manners in IT sector.

ETICOM is a partner of two main multisectorial associations of IT sector in Spain (AMETIC and CONETIC), providing our voice in the high representation councils of the technology sector at national ratio, in defense of our members.

As reference in Digital Economy sector, ETICOM has participated with National Agency Red.es, in training and skills development for youth, promoting the specialized training in order to prepare students and professionals to the specific market needs.

In local focus, ETICOM has participated in digitalisation process for SME through provincial goverment Diputación de Sevilla, with conferences about digital marketing, and a mentoring project with SMEs in Lean method for low-digitalized procedures.

Nowadays, ETICOM participates with Diputación de Sevilla organizating conferences with our experts, about the uses of cloud enviroment for SME, ERP systems and new jobs and opportunities in technological envirment.

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Espaitec is the Science, Technology and Business Park of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón managed by the non-profit organisation Fundació General de la Universitat Jaume I (General Foundation of University Jaume I). An innovative area that started in 2007 made up of technology-based companies, research groups and public organisations that work in different economic sectors to contribute in a quantified and acknowledged fashion to the socio-economic development in the province of Castellón, and also to the diversification of its business fabric through innovation.

Espaitec provides a high technology environment for user-driven testing called e'LivingLab (https://youtu.be/1hhG-c9PLKE) as one of the main services for helping our SME to develop their products using a co-creation environment with their clients (one example of prototyping was published "LivingLab services for Business support and internationalisation" https://issuu.com/enoll/docs/living_lab_services_for_business_su/42 published by ENOLL). e'LivingLAB is member of European Network of LivingLabs (https://enoll.org/network/living-labs/?livinglab=espaitec-living-lab#de…)

Soon we will launch our FabLab that will help to develop prototyping under this user-driver philosophy. 

After more than 10 years of work, we have created a reference environment in the province of Castellón which intends to host, support and promote, and help develop, innovative business initiatives, to facilitate the transfer of technology developed at the University, supporting the digitalization of SMEs and to act as an acknowledged delegate in the innovation field.

In short, it is an area of the Universitat Jaume I where experimentation can be done through innovation; create new professional opportunities by generating technology-based companies; bring talents and disciplines together; promote 360º innovation as a way of life; generate wealth through transferring knowledge to society. Digital technologies.

The EOSC-hub Digital Industry Hub is a non-profit multi-dimensional entity that allows research e-Infrastructures to support business organisations to stimulate the innovation potential of research infrastructures, as well as helping SMEs, start-ups and other innovative actors to tap into the academic world both in accessing knowledge as well as technical services. The final goal is to create a one stop shop that brings IT services, research data, and expertise into a single place to support innovation in industry.

The value proposition of the EOSC-hub DIH can be summarized in five key areas:

Brokerage and innovation

In this regard, the EOSC-hub DIH aims to:

Facilitate effective collaboration within local and international networks.
Promote “open innovation” as the concept used to leverage resources available in the e-Infrastructure network and strategically manage business innovation processes.
Generate innovation ecosystems around e-Infrastructures.
Create a wider community adding researchers, web-entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, investors and corporates from different sectors and geographies.
Expose startups/SMEs to new markets, cultures and business opportunities.

Provide the means for business incubation of innovative ideas

Activities in this space include, but not limited to:
Identifying and refining innovative ideas and facilitating the start-up of operational groups.
Providing the necessary expertise and infrastructure (data, hardware, software, platforms).
Creating conditions for showcase of benefits of new services and products within the e-infrastructure.

Access to public and private funding and facilitate market uptake  

A dedicated unit aims to support both pilots and Competence Centres (CCs) to build-up successful market take-up and commercial boost strategy, through tailor-made coaching, market insights and network with investors/corporate. A business oriented coaching team will be established with the mission to accelerate pilots and CCs market uptake and exploitation of main achievements/ results.

Support entrepreneurship

Creating opportunities for industry to obtain resources (i.e. products, services, data, platforms and testing facilities) to establish new business

Gaining new competencies and skills within research and academic spaces for supporting spin-outs.

Fostering the re-use of open e-infrastructures ecosystems for innovation.

Improving exploitation of thematic/community-driven services among e-infrastructures.

Training

service specific tutorials, business coaching webinars and formal certification in service management according to FitSM

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EnergyDataDK is a digital innovation hub for testing and development of innovative and sustainable energy solutions based on data and digital technologies to support and accelerate the development of an intelligent and sustainable energy system.

The specific focus of EnergyDataDK is digitalization of the energy system, including IoT, AI, real-time data management, energy data analytics, and real-time energy system simulation, in order to make the energy sector more sustainable, cost-effective and able to operate with a large penetration of renewable energy.

 

A non-profit organization

EnergyDataDK is a non-profit national hub for digital innovation with the aim of pushing the digital agenda in the green transition. The hub is based on a real-time data platform for collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing time series and event-based data from a wide variety of living labs and testbeds across Denmark. It is the aim of the hub to help startups, SMEs, and other organizations within both research and industry to develop and explore new services and technologies in the smart energy area for the benefit of society.

 

Digital services

Data is the source of intelligence when it comes to developing a future smart energy system ready to undertake 100% renewable energy, and solid enough to run cost-effective on market terms. Therefore, EnergyDataDK is based on a data management platform collecting nationwide real life energy data and making it assessable as open data.

 

Data management:

EnergyDataDK can provide access to real-time data from serval different living labs and testbeds. Real-time and historic energy data can be exchanged via website APIs and provided as open data.

 

Data analytics and Energy system simulations:

EnergyDataDK offers the possibility of connecting datasets to both real-time simulator, high-performance computing and advanced optimization and control algorithms based on machine learning and AI.

EnergyDataDK provides a combination of data management, data simulation and data analytics in such quality and quantity that the hub is a unique test facility – currently not available anywhere else in the world. 

 

Digital transformation of SMEs and Midcaps:

The EnergyDataDK hub provides a number of novel and innovative services to its users. These services will enable test and verification of digital energy solutions as well as lowering the technical and economic barriers of the industry in their development of these solutions – and thereby facilitate an accelerated development.

The availability of the services are especially important for startup and SME’s, who may not have the financial or technical capabilities to develop the data and analytics facilities needed for developing digital applications. Digital technologies.

ESDALAB DIH is part of Embedded System Design and Application Laboratory (https://www.esdalab.ece.uop.gr) of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (https://www.ece.uop.gr) of the University of Peloponnese (https://www.uop.gr) in Greece. As part of a public Greek University, ESDALAB DIH is a non-profit organization.

The main goal of the hub is to provide local and European SMEs & Slightly Bigger Companies support towards their digital transformation and innovation by:

Enhancing their Digital Skills
Providing know-how on state-of-the-art technologies related to Internet-of-Things and Cyberphysical systems
Technology transfer, that will allow them to enter the digital era through novel services and coaching that will strengthen their position, both in the regional and the global market
Identifying and supporting cross domain business opportunities

ESDALAB DIH is part of the European Network of DIHs. Digital technologies.

Eliko is an embedded electronics and software development company. We design and develop intelligent and future-proof control systems for different industries including industrial manufacturing and healthcare.

Eliko custom develops solutions based on novel algorithms and communication models for devices that continuously need new functionalities in the Internet of Things (IoT).

Eliko's engineers have broad experience in embedded product development and IoT/M2M communication. We focus on inertial motion capture, machine vision and Ultra Wideband technology.

For the past decade, Eliko has been one of the main sources of industrial R&D competence for the Estonian IT and electronics industry. Eliko has been involved in developing government digital standards and public services. Digital technologies.

 

The EGI Digital Innovation Hub (EGI DIH) is a non-profit virtual space where companies and technical service providers meet to test solutions before investing. EGI DIH offers different services on advanced computing to help companies in digitalization improving their productivity.
 

EGI DIH is managed by the EGI Foundation, a non-for-profit organization that coordinates a federation of 350 resource providers offering compute, storage and data infrastructure. The main goal of EGI is to empower data and compute-intensive research and innovation. 

 

Services

 

Test before invest: Technical facilities to support companies and SMEs test before investing or to validate services or solutions. The technical focus of the EGI DIH is:

HPC 
Cloud 
Data management 
Research datasets 
Big Data, Data analytics 
Modelling, Simulations
AI /ML /DL

Skills and training: Provide knowledge on the technical offer through webinars or consultancy services. FitSM certification: Learn IT service management according to a lightweight standard
Support to find investment: Facilitate the access to funding opportunities and investment mechanisms to sustainable support the innovation.
Networking and community building: Bring SMEs and communities together with the EGI community and facilitate the interaction and open new market opportunities.
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Leipzig is home to many well-known SMEs, big corporates, startups and research institutes in the fields of energy, smart city and ehealth. Therefore, the German government acknowledged that this region will shape the digitalization of these sectors as Smart Infrastructure Hub Leipzig. There are many good reasons for innovators in these sectors to come and stay in Leipzig, e.g.: A likeminded community of established innovators from SMEs, big corporates, dynamic startups and recognized researchers (find examples below) A comprehensive innovation strategy with numerous different projects supported by the EU, the German State, the Free State of Saxony as well as the City of Leipzig A vibrant, affordable and lovely city that belongs to the fastest growing regions in Europe only one hour south of Berlin   The Smart Infrastructure Hub is a brand that links many players and projects in the fields of energy, smart city, ehealth and cross-sectional technologies. A regional hub agency links and moderates between those actors, building a strong network that is open for new partners and projects as well. The Hub includes cluster organizations, an accelerator, investors, corporates, different events and many more The hub is located in the 1700 m² space of SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator at Leipzigs Old Cotton Mill. Digital technologies.

EDI is the Digital Innovation Hub of Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia, a non-profit organization founded in 1945 which is the largest national trade association with more than 690.000 SMEs member companies, 6000 employees and a broad network of offices spread throughout Italy.
 

EDI is part of the Digital Innovation Hub national strategy launched by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development within the "Piano Nazionale Impresa 4.0" (the national “Enterprises Strategy 4.0”) which specifically provided for the creation of Digital Innovation Hubs of national strategic interest promoted by the most representative national trade associations. 

 

The main purpose of EDI is to carry out a structured program of activities with a not-for-profit objectives to help the broad adoption of advanced digital technologies by businesses - especially start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps - and serve as access points to innovative technologies and latest digital capacities (e.g. artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, internet of things, etc.) through raise-awareness, specialized training and innovative services which are needed for a successful digital transformation.

 

In order to better intercept SMEs and maximize the impact at local level, EDI has a network of local structures throughout the national territory - the so called Spin - and develops an innovation ecosystem at national and local level with universities, research centre, large companies businesses, public administrations and other innovation actors. The nature of EDI let it operate as a Digital Innovation Hub at a national and local level, also being a point of contact for innovation-oriented actions from other European regions.

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EDI in Riga, Latvia is a non-profit public research institute founded in 1960. Currently, EDI is specializing in the development of Smart Embedded Cooperative Systems in fields of: health, mobility, space, production, social challenges, safety and security. EDI has more than 80 researchers working on innovative technologies in electronics and computer science. At the moment, main fields of competence includes signal and image processing (incl. AI), development of cyber-physical and embedded systems, intelligent transport systems (incl. connected and automated driving), hardware and software prototyping, system integration, wireless sensor networks (incl. IoT), intelligent devices, development of sensors, radars, biometrics, wearables, precise timing, robotics, etc.

EDI has an unique state-of-the-art infrastructure to support local and international SMEs. For example, EDI has a 100+ node heterogeneous sensor network and wireless network testbed distributed around 7-floor building for validation and research in sensor network protocols & wireless network protocols. Additionally 50 mobile nodes are available on site for on site deplyments (e.g. in customers factory). Besides, EDI has WSN hardware prototyping test bench EDImote developed with flexibility of prototyping, performance monitoring and hardware and software debug assistance in mind (enabling fast prototyping for virtually any hardware). Also, high performance workstations for computation, signal processing, visualization and design (Matlab, Simulink, Labview, Quartus, Tanner Tools Pro, etc.) are available for use. PCB designing and simulation tools Altium Designer and fast prototyping systems (LPKF ProtoMat-S62, LPKF MiniContac-RS, Xytronic-IR620 Preheater, Unox thermal equipment) for multilayer PCB design. Laboratory equipment: Spectrum analyzers up to 20GHz (e.g. ROHDE&SCHWARZ-FSU8), Arbitrary waveform signal generators (e.g. Agilent-N6031A), Digital oscilloscopes up to 50GHz (e.g. 25GSPS Tektronix DPO70604). Mixed signal oscilloscopes (e.g. Tektronix MSO4104, Tektronix MSO4032). Portable spectrum analyzers and oscilloscopes, etc. Last but not least, EDI has High Performance Computer (HPC) with dozens of Nvidia GPUs; Vibration and shock test platform, climate test chamber, Professional IR/Thermal camera, Professional 3D printer, automated-driving car platform, etc.

EDI has implemented several national projects with local industries (incl. SMEs) thus supporting companies (e.g. KEPP EU, HansaMatrix, Square Audio, Squalio, Lattelecom, etc.) to digitaize their industry. 

On January 1st, 2019 EDI started H2020 IA project called TRINITY which aim to create a network of multidisciplinary and synergistic local digital innovation hubs (DIHs) composed of research centers, companies, and university groups that cover a wide range of topics that can contribute to agile production: advanced robotics as the driving force and digital tools, data privacy and cyber security technologies to support the introduction of advanced robotic systems in the production processes. Digital technologies.