Access to Funding
- Support to anticipate the financial need to enable the operating plan: identification of all financial options, action plan to find additional financial resources during the project
- Support to produce research grant applications, inform about and connect to funding sources (e.g., open calls, public funding, investors)
- Advice on calls available, connection to venture capital, etc.
- Operational assistance for the elaboration of the request for financial subsidy
Concept Validation and Prototyping
- Proof of concept, prototyping, commercialisation/industrialisation, small series production. Typically from TRL 6
- Lab facilities, equipment for lease/use (sensors, robots, robot tooling, etc.), rapid prototyping
Digital Maturity Assessment
- Helping individual organisations identify key strengths and gaps in provision of digital services
- Adapting the technology to the specific needs of the business, and integrating it with existing systems
- Support in defining technological value propositions
Ecosystem Building and Brokerage
- Ecosystem building through, e.g., dissemination, workshops, 1-to-1 follow-up, matchmaking both within the DIH and to external stakeholders (e.g., industry associations, end-users) and national/international ecosystems.
- Market research, market awareness, market/technology trends, mentoring by technical and application experts
- Facilitate knowledge sharing by organizing and informing about seminars, workshops, conferences, field trips, newsletters and other information sharing
- Promote/advertise the capabilities and technologies of the DIH and its members through, e.g., roadshows, exhibitions, dissemination, and otherwise represent interests (e.g., suppliers, end-users)
- Creation of infographics, brochures and supporting marketing material
- Pursuing local partnerships
- Running social media and content management
Training
- General and topic-specific courses, hands-on training, education
Mentoring
- Long-term (2-10y) R&D collaboration, combo with shorter-term spin-out commercialization projects (e.g., contract research), typically up to TRL 5
- Shorter-term R&D (0-4y), compensate short-term lack of resources/competence, close customer-R&D-supplier interaction, technology demonstrators. Typically from TRL 5
Testing and Validation
- Certification, product demonstration & testing, comparison of products
