Accelerating Digital Advantage: Supporting SMEs to thrive in a post-pandemic world through adoption of digital strategies.

加速数字化优势：通过采用数字化战略，支持中小企业在疫情后的世界中蓬勃发展。

• 批准号: CCB21-2021-00128
• 负责人: Ray, Mira
• 金额: $ 16.03万
• 依托单位: Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Technology Partnership Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=729255
• 关键词: Accelerating; Digital; Advantage; Supporting; SMEs

Georgian's applied research program is focused on helping local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) thrive during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. A new thematic area called Accelerating Digital Advantage will build upon the existing Competitive Smart Manufacturing program, to reach companies in a broader range of sectors including retail, food and beverage, cannabis, healthcare, high tech, agriculture, medical devices and manufacturing subsectors. Georgian and its regional partners have come together to develop the Research and Innovation Cluster of Central Ontario (RICCO) for a coordinated approach to the region's economic development and innovation initiatives. Business development, networking, education, and knowledge dissemination events, supported by RICCO partners, allows Georgian to connect with local SMEs across multiple sectors that have a need to accelerate their digital strategies, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Accelerating Digital Advantage research theme, Georgian will work with local businesses to implement digital tools, hardware, and software to impart a commercial or business advantage to local companies who need to compete on the world stage. Companies that embrace strategies that enable big data, artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and other advanced digital innovations are the ones that will survive and thrive during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. During the proposed two-year program, Accelerating Digital Advantage will engage up to 20 SMEs and conduct a minimum of 14 applied research projects, focused on development, testing, and/or adoption of digital strategies as related to new products, services, or processes. Nineteen students and/or recent graduates will gain meaningful research experiences through work-integrated learning and result in at least five students hired by business partners. The project will lead to at least five functional prototypes and six industry processes ready for proof-of-concept testing.

Georgian 的应用研究项目专注于帮助当地中小企业 (SME) 在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后蓬勃发展。一个名为“加速数字优势”的新主题领域将建立在现有的竞争性智能制造计划的基础上，覆盖更广泛行业的公司，包括零售、食品和饮料、大麻、医疗保健、高科技、农业、医疗器械和制造子行业。 格鲁吉亚及其区域合作伙伴共同开发了安大略省中部研究与创新集群 (RICCO)，以协调一致的方式促进该地区的经济发展和创新举措。 RICCO 合作伙伴支持的业务发展、网络、教育和知识传播活动使 Georgian 能够与多个行业的当地中小企业建立联系，这些中小企业需要加快数字战略，特别是应对新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行。通过“加速数字优势”研究主题，格鲁吉亚将与当地企业合作实施数字工具、硬件和软件，为需要在世界舞台上竞争的当地公司提供商业或商业优势。采用支持大数据、人工智能 (AI)、扩展现实 (XR) 和其他先进数字创新战略的公司将能够在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后生存并蓬勃发展。在拟议的两年计划中，加速数字优势将吸引多达 20 家中小企业，并开展至少 14 个应用研究项目，重点是开发、测试和/或采用与新产品、服务或流程相关的数字战略。十九名学生和/或应届毕业生将通过工作整合学习获得有意义的研究经验，并导致至少五名学生被商业伙伴雇用。该项目将产生至少五个功能原型和六个行业流程，为概念验证测试做好准备。