Industry 4.0 and business digitalization under analysis at the next International Conference of the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE)
The digital transformation and digitalization of companies and entities is a determining aspect today for their competitiveness, and science and technology parks play a primary role in supporting this digitalization of the industry. Based on this, the parks take an active stance, focusing part of their activities and services on the development of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, and even, some of them, receiving the mention of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), by developing as ecosystems. so that companies and entities improve their production processes, services and business models through digitalization.
During the XVI International Conference of APTE we are learning about examples of international companies that are standing out in the field of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 such as ArcelorMittal or ASTI Technology Group. In addition, we are analyzing the characteristics of the Digital Innovation Hubs through some of the scientific and technological parks that are accredited as such: Atlanpole, Land of Innovation, Espaitec, Parc Cientific, Tecnológic i Empresarial of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló y Parque Technological Institute of Health Sciences of Granada. Today the management director of Espaitec Juan Antonio Bertolín takes part in a debate table to address the topic.
The conference will continue analyzing the processes of digital transformation and business digitalization through the coordinator of the Innovation For Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) initiative and the managing director of the Mercado Alternativo Bursatil (MAB).
The panel of presentations will conclude with the presentation of the “Open Innovation 4.0 in Asturias” program in which we will learn about the challenges launched by the multinationals ThyssenKrupp, EDP and ArcelorMittal and the companies that have won said challenges: NEOSENTEC, ENERGINTEL AND INGENIACITY.
During the closing of the event, the awards that collect the best practices of the science and technology parks of 2018 and the awards for the First Edition of the dissemination of the parks in the media will take place, which will recognize the work of disseminating information about scientific and technological parks that have made two media outlets at both the national and local/regional level.
