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Bind 4.0 creates two calls for innovation in SMEs and public administration

Bind 4.0 has just launched two new calls for startups. The open innovation platform aims to promote new innovation projects in collaboration with industrial SMEs, in the case of Bind 4.0 SME Connectionand for the first time with public administrations, with the launch of the new pilot initiative Bid 4.0 GovTech. Both registration periods will remain open until february 3 and emerging companies with disruptive technological solutions capable of responding to the different challenges posed by both initiatives will be able to register.

The objective of these two initiatives, created by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment through the SPRI Group and its Up!Euskadi platform, is the same: to accelerate digitization both in industrial SMEs and in public administrations, through collaboration with startups. And, at the same time, make it easier for startups to access the market and their inclusion in the Basque ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

28 SMEs in the second edition of BIND 4.0 SME Connection

On the one hand, BIND 4.0 SME Connection begins its second edition, which this year has opened to 16 ODCs (Organizations that promote clusters) of the Basque Country, and has the participation of 28 industrial SMEs, belonging to the clusters and business associations of Aclima, Uptek, Food, Habic, Eraikune and Adegi. This program seeks innovative startups capable of responding, with the application of new technologies, to the 11 new challenges posed by the ODCs in the areas of machine tools, the environment, food, design and equipment, and construction. In the last edition, more than 80 startups with 131 projects applied to participate in the program.

In this edition, each ODC and association launches challenges related to the demands of their sector. Specifically, Aclima, the environmental cluster, raises the need to optimize the capture and improve the management of the extracted data. For its part, Adegi, the Association of Companies of Guipúzcoa, also poses two challenges focused on extracting, storing and monitoring data from industrial equipment and providing intelligence to machines. Technologies such as Big Data, IA, IoT, sensors, among others, can be applied in all of them. On another line is Eraikuneconstruction cluster, where the creation of a digital twin and the optimization and analysis of data are its main axes.

The efficient management of stocks, the automation of demand forecasts and the improvement of product traceability, are the main demands of the Basque Food Cluster, the Basque Food Chain Association. For its part, the Uptek Association – AFM, a cluster of advanced and digital manufacturing, focuses on the cybersecurity of its machines and assets, through Artificial Intelligence and Habic, a cluster of equipment, furniture and design in the Basque Country, commitment to cybersecurity to improve the digital protection of smart devices.

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Six challenges to innovate in public administration

Bind 4.0 GovTech celebrates its first edition this year and has the participation of six public companies with different challenges. EJIE, the Basque Government’s technology management body, wants to facilitate the use of Basque in spoken and written channels with the use of new technologies. For its part, SPRI, the Basque business development agency, needs solutions to optimize the Internal operations in processes and procedures.

Specifically, the Euskadi Network of Technology Parks wants to optimize the energy consumption of its infrastructures through Big Data, automatic learning or artificial intelligence. On the other hand, Ihobe, a public environmental management company, focuses on obtaining information on the behavior of clients of the Ekoetxea network of environmental centers. Hazi, a foundation for the rural and coastal development of the Basque Country, is based on knowing better the needs of its companies to improve their competitiveness. And finally, EVE, the Basque Energy Entity, needs to obtain and analyze valuable information on mobility in the region.

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