General Description

Service Portfolio

1. Research & Networking: Showcasing the profile of cluster members and the identity of the cluster overall, placing the ecosystem dynamically on the international market, through targeted publicity, networking and through the design and implementation of data collection and marketing intelligence mechanisms.
2. Expansion & Internationalization: Advisory support on specific operational and business development issues, with many opportunities for cooperation with experienced partners and benefits of involvement within a collaborative environment of innovation incubators.
3. Education & Training: Business acceleration opportunities through mentoring and training of key scientific and management staff, by organizing high-quality educational programs and specialised seminars in collaboration with subject-matter experts.
4. Commercial Cooperation: Strengthening of the value chain and the partnerships between members, international presence, expansion into new markets and developing strategic partnerships both at home and abroad through participation in exhibitions and roadshows to target markets and business meetings.
5. Innovation & Technology: Improving innovation processes and developing technological achievements, monitoring and shaping trends and international high-technology standards with the enhancement of applied research by linking industry and academic research community and by organizing scientific events.
6. Policy Action: Improving the macroeconomic environment by actively exploring partnerships, shaping national & international policy, and developing & implementing action plans related to innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness support measures.

• Office/Desk Renting, Business Center and Teleconferencing Facilities, Exhibition Area, Lab Area, Data Center in two EBN-qualified business innovation centers.
• 12-month business acceleration for more than 30 early-stage startups every year in the most prominent Greek accelerator “egg–enter.grow.go” that offers state-of-the-art infrastructure, training, mentoring and business-support services.

• Organisation of customised seminars and training certification programs to scientific and management staff for acquiring new skills and dexterities.
• Organisation of professional employment support measures and events, such as Career Days, Internship Days, Industry-Academia Networking Days, etc.

• Provision of business advice and direct access to an extensive network of Business Angels, VCs, Banks and Institutional Investors, offering Seed and Growth Capital, Micro-loans, Loans, Financial Guarantees, Factoring, etc.
• Coordination of proposal submissions to Horizon, COSME, Interreg, Structural Funds Programmes, National Development Funds, etc.

• Organisation of open innovation contests and challenges, such as Hackathons, Appathons, Startup Weekends, Bootcamps etc.
• Advice and support on developing a business plan and an intellectual property management plan, in cooperation with specialized experts and patent attorneys.

• Organisation of business Roadshows, commercial and technology Exhibitions, Trade Fairs, B2B/B2C/C2C Match-making and brokerage events, at international level.

• Digital Media Development, Market Intelligence Watch, Benchmarking, Press Releases preparation and issuing, etc.

INCluSilver is an EU Horizon2020 INNOSUPP programme that aims to support collaboration between actors belonging to different sectors in order to create the optimal conditions for generating and validating innovative ideas in the field of personalised nutrition for the Silver Economy that have great potential to reach the market. The “Silver Economy” is defined as the economic activity and consumer expenditure related to the specific population group of citizens over 50 years of age. As part of INCluSilver, an Innovation Voucher Scheme with a total budget of 2.800.000 € is allocated to SMEs in order to support companies at different stages in their innovative activities, including: Maturation of ideas and projects, Scalability and internationalisation, Demonstration, Transfer of technology, Feasibility analysis, and Intellectual Property Rights protection.

a) Eyelead Software: Eyelead is a leading software developer focusing in next generation 3D entertainment applications and state-of-the-art visualisation technologies. Capitalising over 10 years of research and development, Eyelead Software has developed the Hive3D Development Platform™ that combines a real-time collaborative, network-aware authoring development environment with a state of the art 3D engine. Hive3D dramatically accelerates 3D game and application creation, while delivering state of the art visual quality. Eyelead’s need was to enter new digital markets and develop solutions for connecting existing game technology with e-health platforms, allowing for health-related meta-game mechanisms. For the above, Eyelead received a Scalability and an Internationalisation Voucher in order to develop a project called “MGIHealth” (“Mobile Games to Incentivize Healthy Habits”) that aims to bring uniquely engaging game experiences to the silver generation as a means of incentivising better nutrition and increased physical activity. Through the support they received, they were able to develop a prototype that rewards players for completing game-related, activity & nutrition-related challenges with awards, extended playtime or in-game currency.

b) MobileFX PCC: MobileFX is a privately owned technology company founded in 2012 with offices in Athens. Their mainstream business is provision of consulting, design, and development services for Gaming & Gamification, Mobile Marketing, Proximity Marketing and Digital Signage. MobileFX invests heavily in emerging technologies with inhouse R&D, and they develop market-driven software for end-to-end full-stack solutions, ranging from client Apps and Games to Cloud Application Servers and Content Provision Systems. MobileFX’s customers vary from B2C small indie software houses to B2B multinational corporations seeking expert opinion and consulting services. MobileFX also provides cutting-edge specialised technology and services for a vast array of niche markets. MobileFX’s need was to undertake Economic Feasibility Analysis and Demonstration of new mobile solutions for the customer segment that includes the elderly, their family members, caregivers, or nurses. For the above, MobileFX received respective support and innovation vouchers in order to develop a mobile app prototype called “Silver Lining” that uses the patient’s medical profile and can scan a QR code next to a meal on a menu to check online whether the ingredients used in the meal can cause allergies/health issues. Moreover, nutritionists and medical personnel will be able to add/update ingredients causing allergies and diseases using a web-platform.

b) GEOSPATIAL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES, established in Moschato, Greece, is developing a platform to provide information about seabed (seafloor classification and bathymetry) as well as information about fishery resources using the SEMANTIC TS eBeem single beam acoustic system and the spatial data infrastructure provided by GET. The system targets sea shallow water (ranging from a few decimeters depth to 80m, depending on the use) but it could also be used in inland waters like rivers, lakes, and ponds. The SEMANTIC TS eBeem system is a brand new single beam acoustic system that can be used easily from a boat, coupled with a cloud platform to process the data. Using this system, the users can easily perform the measurements; upload the data to the cloud for further analysis and for the production of the final products and datasets.

c) Planetek Hellas ltd, established in Maroussi, Greece, is promoting the use of the Earth Observation (EO) by satellite to the benefit of aquaculture and fisheries sectors. The EU funded SAFI project has been for Planetek the opportunity to establish deep relationship with aquaculture professionals and a better level understanding of their requirements about environmental monitoring. A service has been put in place to supply aquaculture professional with EO derived data. EO can regularly provide vide synoptic and useful information on the environment (Harmful Algal Blooms or HABs, thermal fronts, water quality) thanks to the Sentinel Programme of Copernicus. However, its standalone use is limited as key parameters like local current speed and direction are not retrievable from space. In addition, the spatial coverage of the imagery might be impacted by clouds presence or its quality affected by sun specular reflection. Planetek is now expanding the SAFI offer to a new level of service, a combination of EO data and coastal hydrodynamic modelling is being suggested.

• Multimodal content management across various distribution channels, such as web, mobile, sms, email, speech and IPTVs. Content is seamlessly transformed and adapted to each channel characteristics. 
• Indoor and outdoor localization service for user and device tracking (based on wifi positioning).
• Identity and user management services for user authentication and user profiling.
• Contextualization and Personalization services for context-aware service provisioning based on location, time, user device, user actions and other static and dynamic context parameters. 
• Dynamic recommendation services for online recommendations based on user location and user behavior.
• Access to live airport data flows, such as flight data information, delay information for checkpoint queues, etc.
• Logging services for event and service usage statistics.
• Network services for user communication, such SMS, email gateway, printing facilities, etc.

Big IoT Data and Stream Analytics for a telecoms multinational

More information about Digital Innovation Hubs

• Information about the Digital Innovation Hubs
• Pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) as part of the Digital Single Market Strategy
• The ATHENA RC DIH information on the S3 Platform