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Digital Inovation Hubs

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7

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28

Flagship

Innovation

Experiments

Digital innovation hubs

In the spotlight

What is a Digital Innovation Hub? How does it look like and what kind of service do they offer?

Discover 3 DIHs of our ecosystem and their relationships to a variety of stakeholders!

Rural Industry Digital Innovation Hub

Large Companies

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What is your relation with large companies?
A: We have close relationship especially with many chemical industry having their sites in our region. Their business is connected to i.e. fertilizers. In addition, via competence center R&I activities, many global communication companies belong to our close network.  

Competence Centers

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Do you engage with Competence Centers, if yes, how?
A: Rural Industry DIH is formed in collaboration of 3 CCs: Centria UAS acts as a DIH coordinator, and Oulu University Kerttu Saalasti institute and Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius are supporting CCs contributing with their strong expertise.  

Farmer organisations

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What is your relation with farmer organisations?
A: Finnish main farmer organization MTK is a member in our DIH via its regional department.  

Innovation Experiments

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What are your current activities regarding Innovation Experiments?
A: We have participated in one PREPARE Open Call proposal  

Other DIHs

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What is your relation with other DIHs?
A: Our competence centers have close connections to many local existing DIHs such as Tampere manufacturing DIH, Arctic Drone labs, 5GTNF, Robocoast etc. In addition, our DIH is participating to SAH activities and has established agreement with many eDIH proposals.  

Governmental organisations

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What is your relation with governmental organisations?
A: We have received strong support from our regional authorities and local governmental offices throughout our formation proces 

Digital Innovation Value Accelerator

Other DIHs

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What is your relation with other DIHs?
A: We are working with DIHs such as Vegepolys Valley in order to develop the promotion of the EDIH DIVA services to SMEs. Those collaborations also allow us to identify the needs of SMEs and to adapt the EDIH offer.  

Farmer organisations

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What is your relation with farmer organisations?
A: We will work in close collaboration with farmer organizations such as the Pays de la Loire chamber of agriculture, offering them experimentation grounds to companies wishing to test new services and new technologies, access to technical infrastructures, such as experimental farms or data access.  

Large Companies

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What is your relation with large companies?
A: The EDIH DIVA (Digital Innovation Value Accelerator) will support the digitization of companies (SMEs) by providing them services in order to develop and testing news services and solutions based on data and Artificial Intelligence. We will also work with services providers specializing in AI technologies.  

Competence Centers

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Do you engage with Competence Centers, if yes, how?
A: Two academic partners are members of the EDIH DIVA consortium: the University of Nantes and IMT Atlantique. We also work with technical centers, in particular Technocampus in the Pays de la Loire Region  

Governmental organisations

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What is your relation with governmental organisations?
A: We are working in close collaboration with local authorities, especially with the Pays de la Loire regional council. The DIVA project is part of the innovation strategy in the region for the development of the digitization of companies  

Innovation Experiments

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What are your current activities regarding Innovation Experiments?
A: We are currently designing our services to IEs. We will offer services to develop infrastructures for experiments, access to data, strengthen the training offer in the field of data and AI and facilitate access to funding.  

DIH Innovacoop

Innovation Experiments

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What are your current activities regarding Innovation Experiments?
A: In 2020, within the SmartAgriHubs framework, we organized the hackathon ‘Hack4Food’. Right now, we are planning to implement some Innovation Experiments dedicated to precision farming to boost the interactions between farmers and digital innovators.  

Governmental organisations

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What is your relation with governmental organisations?
A: The association Legacoop Emilia-Romagna, which is our main shareholders, has a constant dialogue with governmental organizations. 

Other DIHs

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What is your relation with other DIHs?
A: Since 2021, our activities as a Digital Innovation Hub are intertwined with the ones carried out by Fondazione PICO, the DIH of the national association Legacoop, within Emilia-Romagna, we collaborate with the DIHs of the local Chambers of Commerce.  

Large Companies

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What is your relation with large companies?
A: Most of our clients are SMEs, but we support also large cooperatives. In this regard, we have noted that some difficulties connected to innovation implementation are shared between SMEs and large companies – especially in terms of internal culture and open innovation practices.  

Farmer organisations

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What is your relation with farmer organisations?
A:Innovacoop has access to a large pool of farming cooperatives, which represent 16% of the regional cooperatives affiliated to Legacoop Emilia-Romagna. These 181 farming firms have 46,179 members, 2,187 workers and generate € 3.4 billion in terms of production value.  

Competence Centres

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Do you engage with Competence Centers, if yes, how?
A: At local level, we have a strong relationship with Bi-Rex, based in Bologna and one of the national Competence Centers dedicated to digital transformation.