Digital Innovation Hub

A publicly coordinated centre or network designed to help companies and public organisations adopt AI and other digital technologies by providing access to expertise, testing facilities, training, and support for R&D and scale-up. The strategy frames Digital Innovation Hubs as key ecosystem actors to connect industry, academia and public services and to facilitate access to EU funding and collaborative projects.

Organisations (typically public-private) that facilitate uptake of advanced digital technologies by SMEs and public sector entities by offering access to testing, finance, expertise, and training, and by acting as regional focal points for piloting and scaling AI solutions.

A networked organisational entity that provides technical assistance, testing, business support and access to finance for SMEs and public actors to adopt AI and other digital technologies; DIHs are named as primary implementation partners and conduits for voucher schemes, pilots and competence building.

A networked support organisation defined to provide firms—particularly SMEs—with access to technology expertise, prototyping, testing, training and finance, acting as a focal point for demonstrations, capacity-building and linkages between businesses, research organisations and public programmes under the Strategy.