DIHNET-Deliverable 5.1 – Segmentation of DIHs services and business models

The objective of the DIHNET.EU work package (WP) 5 “Exploring business models” is to identify, develop and promote the diversity of new business models that can foster knowledge sharing and technologies transfer between European DIHs while enabling the sustainable development of new business opportunities for them all. By helping DIHs setting-up the framework of a Pan-European collaboration between them, DIHNET.EU aims at reinforcing the smart specialisation and at generating cross fertilization between technology oriented and sectorial DIHs.

To achieve this aim, the Deliverable 5.1 had two main objectives:

•to create an overview of the existing sustainable business models for DIHs pan-EU collaboration networks;

•to collect inputs from existing organisation working as DIH in order to identify the potential business models to be developed when this Pan-European collaboration did not exist yet.