Business Intelligence & Innovation

The Business Intelligence & Innovation Hub is a non-profit oriented innovation and support organization (service center) of the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. The Hub is elaborated within the Interreg Central Europe Project “4Steps – Towards the application of Industry 4.0 in SMEs (CE1492) and is a tool to support business, industry, economy, society and government within the region of the Federal State of Vorarlberg in the further development and implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy “Intelligent Production”.

In the center of the Business Intelligence & Innovation Hub are to boost research, technology and innovation for a sustainable, competitive and profitable regional development. The Business Intelligence & Innovation Hub is a supportive, inter-organizational and non-profit organization for stakeholders within the region fo the Federal State of Vorarlberg (and beyond). With the support of the Hub, stakeholders cooperate and collaborate (transregionally) to expanse existing R&D focuses and to investigate new R&D areas and priorities.

Core services assigned to the Business Intelligence & Innovation Hub are about Artificial Intelligence, System/Ecosystem Collaboration, Resilience Engineering, Innovation Research & Disruptive Innovation, Methods & Tools and Co-Creation/Networking. With the Vorarlberg Digital Factory, the DIH on "Business Intelligence & Innovation" offers a laboratory on digital technologies to business and industry. This laboratory is equipped with emergent technologies within the field of advanced manufacturing and acts as regional testbed for organizations.