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Digital tech SMEs at the service of Smart Specialisation Strategies

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DEVISE = Digital tech SMEs at the service of Smart Specialisation Strategies
Coordinating actions to foster the growth of digital SMEs providing innovative solutions that allow other sectors to be more competitive.

Project Status: Live Project

Project Leader: Jose Manuel San Emeterio

EU Programme: INTERREG Europe

Project Budget: €1,652,750

Start Date: Jun, 2018

Finish Date: Nov, 2022

Project Website: http://www.interregeurope.eu/devise/

The aim of the project is to:

Increase the contribution of the digital-tech sector to competitiveness in other key sectors by improving supporting policy instruments.

Specific objectives are to:

Explore how public policy supports can be adapted to facilitate increased uptake of solutions by a region's key sectors from its digital sector.
Help to create digital transformation-enabling environments across the project's ten European regions
Facilitate increased collaboration between SMEs in the digital sector and those belonging to other key regional sectors.

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)
Project management and responsible for the overall delivery of the project

Jose Manuel San Emeterio
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Cantabria, Spain
Gobierno de Cantabria(Partner)
Project Partner

Jorge Muyo López
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Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom
Derry City & Strabane District Council(Partner)
Project Partner

Tara Nicholas
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Loire , France
Laval Mayenne Technopole(Partner)
Project partner

Valérie Moreau
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Northern & Western, Ireland
Northern & Western Regional Assembly(Partner)
Project Partner

Patrick Devine
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San Sebastián, Spain
Fomento de San Sebastián(Partner)
Project Partner

Gorka Díez Jiménez
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South Ostrobothnia, Finland
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences(Partner)
Project partner

Saara Makela
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Varna, Bulgaria
Business Agency Association(Partner)
Project Partner

Silvia Stumpf
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West Flanders, Belgium
Voka - Kamer van Koophandel West-Vlaanderen(Partner)
Project Partner

Soraya Van Cauwenberghe
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West Romania, Romania

WRDA (Partner)
Project Partner

Daniela Copaci

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The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

Challenges and competencies

Loire - Laval Mayenne Technopole

This good practice is directed at companies. It is a programme whose purpose is to mobilise students in order to enable SMEs to integrate innovative solutions. This is an innovative initiative because provides traditional SMEs with skills to innovate and...

This good practice is directed at companies. It is a programme whose purpose is to mobilise students in order...

DENTATICS Grants Programme

San Sebastián - Fomento de San Sebastián

This good practice, directed at companies, consists in a grant scheme whose purpose is to increase digitalisation in retail and hospitality sectors. It is innovative because allows traditional economic sectors to increase their competitiveness through their digital...

This good practice, directed at companies, consists in a grant scheme whose purpose is to increase digitalisation in...

Digital Vouchers

Loire - Laval Mayenne Technopole

This good practice is directed at SMEs. It provides external advice to help them identify and choose the best solutions/tools that will enable them to grow, innovate and face their current challenges. This is an innovative initiative that offers new ways for SMEs...

This good practice is directed at SMEs. It provides external advice to help them identify and choose the best...

Industry 4.0 Technology Audits

Cantabria - Gobierno de Cantabria

This good practice is directed at companies. It is an initiative whose purpose is to show companies what is their level of maturity and provide them with advice when implementing their digital transformation. This initiative enables small companies with innovative...

This good practice is directed at companies. It is an initiative whose purpose is to show companies what is their...

Innovation Labs

West Romania - WRDA

This good practice is directed at students and young entrepreneurs. Its purpose is to offer them the possibility to explore the potential of bleeding-edge technologies to solve real problems. This initiative is innovative because allows students and young...

This good practice is directed at students and young entrepreneurs. Its purpose is to offer them the possibility to...

Regional Map of Industry 4.0 Technology enablers

Cantabria - Gobierno de Cantabria

This good practice is directed at companies. It is a study whose purpose is to create an inventory of Industry 4.0 enablers in order to help the companies when implementing these technologies. The innovative aspect comes from the content of the study that focuses in...

This good practice is directed at companies. It is a study whose purpose is to create an inventory of Industry 4.0...

Technological skills MSc Programme

Cantabria - Gobierno de Cantabria

This good practice is directed at university students. It is a training programme whose purpose is to provide with tech skills to university students of non-technological backgrounds. This is an innovative and practical approach to provide knowledge in latest...

This good practice is directed at university students. It is a training programme whose purpose is to provide with...

Technology Gateway

Donegal - ERNACT Network

This good practice is directed at SMEs. It is a service whose purpose is to provide access to research, knowledge, services and people located in Ireland's universities and technology institutes. This is an innovative initiative because of the way it networks resource...

This good practice is directed at SMEs. It is a service whose purpose is to provide access to research, knowledge,...

DEVISE aims to give response to the current challenge that 10 European regions are facing to unlock and exploit the potential that digital tech SMEs have as enabler for the competitiveness of other SMEs belonging to sectors included in their Regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3).

Although significant progress has been made in the definition of more focused policies supporting these strategic sectors, more coordinated actions are required to foster the growth of digital SMEs providing innovative solutions that allow other sectors to be more competitive. Taking this into consideration, DEVISE aims, by 2021, to increase by 15% the number of digital tech SMEs enabling competitiveness in other regional strategic sectors through improved supporting policy instruments.

In doing so, the project will follow an innovative intersectoral approach involving all the relevant stakeholders in the process of analysing the current context, learning from other EU regions and defining improved policies integrating the lessons learnt.

DEVISE will produce concrete outputs to meet this objective and other long-term effects. This includes the definition of 10 regional action plans that will help policy makers improve the effectiveness of the instruments they are responsible, through more focused actions supporting the issue addressed in DEVISE. We will also put a lot of effort to set up 10 regional digital transformation enabling environments that will cooperate together. DEVISE will facilitate the creation of these environments formed by digital and other key sectors. Policy makers, business support organisations, educational centres and SMEs from the digital and other smart specialisation sectors will be the main participants and beneficiaries of these environments expected to last beyond DEVISE’s lifetime. These environments will bring improved coordination and increased collaboration between the digital sector and those belonging to other smart specialisation sectors.