DIHNAMIC - DIGITAL INNOVATION HUBS

DIGITAL INNOVATION HUBS: DYNAMIC FACILITATION AND THRUST FROM REGIONAL INNOVATION AGENCIES

H2020-INNOSUP-2018-06-two-stage: Supporting experimentation in innovation agencies

• Call for support for SMEs digitalisation. DIHNAMIC Project                                                                
• Outcome of the call (766 kbytes)                                                   

PROJECT FRAMEWORK

With the emergence of new business models and new technologies, the Institute for Business Competitiveness (ICE), as part of the European innovation ecosystem, is constantly trying to adapt and innovate in the way it supports companies in Castilla y León. The DIHnamic project is born from this innovation, within the call H2020-INNOSUP-2018-06-two-stage: supporting experimentation in innovation agencies.

WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF DIHnamic?

OVERALL OBJECTIVE:

• DIHnamic, project, 100% funded by the European Union, aims to verify new innovative facilitation services addressed at SMEs from Castilla y León, through the dynamic facilitation and thrust of the Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) in the region and other DIHs across Europe, and its dissemination at the European level throughout innovation agencies.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

• O1: To create a cascading funding line that, with the support the Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), provides regional SMEs with services to advance their digitization process, facilitating access to the latest knowledge, experience and technology.
• O2: To explore other innovative facilitation mechanism throughout collaborative work with other agencies.
• O3: To show the adequateness of the RCT methodology to assess the eectiveness of actions.

INNOVATIVE CHARACTER OF DIHnamic

The objectives of the Digital Innovation Hubs, acting as one-stop shops, is to help companies in their digitisation processes and ICE relies on these Hubs to promote the digitalisation of SMEs.
ICE, innovating in the way it supports SMEs, will carry out with the DIHnamic, project, a rigorous measurement of the impact of the services provided by the Digital Innovation Hubs using the methodology of Randomized Control Trials (RCT), thus ensuring the objectivity and impartiality of the results.
The goal is to encourage you to experiment more, to reconcile "trial and error" and "test before invest" attitudes, to design and test innovative support schemes for new challenges and to rigorously test their impact.

EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF DIHnamic

The Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León (ICE), has the support and active collaboration of the main associations of European regional entities, EURADA and ERRIN, with the aim of:
•    Analysing and comparing innovative support programmes for SMEs currently being implemented.
•    Transferring the knowledge acquired and the results of the project to other European innovation entities, so that they can be replicated.
Thanks to DIHnamic, ICE will develop new innovative models to support SMEs, which will be able to help other agencies, thus strengthening the regional and European innovation ecosystem.

KEY DATA

Starting date: 01/09/2019
Ending date: 31/08/2022
Budget: 496.250 €
Web: www.empresas.jcyl.es
Contact: proyectodihnamic@jcyl.es

This project has received funding from the European Union's HORIZON 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 824186.

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