World Champion Austria Styria
Research is at home in Styria, the green heart of Austria Lush Styria not only has the largest proportion of forests in Austria, it is also number one when it comes to research and development.
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Research and development With regards to the competitiveness between regions and countries, the areas science, industrial research and development as well as knowledge transfer are of great importance. A successful business
and research location has to cover the innovation chain from basic research at universities through to the successful introduction of products and services. The province of Styria is in a good position as it has a broad scientific base at its disposal including universities, non-university research institutions (institutes from the Austrian Academy of Science, the province’s own research association Joanneum Research) and courses at universities of applied science. The cooperation between the scientific basis and the local companies contributes considerably to Styria’s position in international competition as a business and research location. In addition, these collaborations have been supported for decades by a proven scientific, research and business development practise.
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tyria is a province full of innovation located right in the heart of the future-orientated Alps-Adriatic Region. Styria’s core competence and success story is knowledge and technology transfer. A large proportion of the Austrian competence centres do their research and work here. Spin-offs from the university sector are the norm and independent research centres such as Joanneum Research are available to companies at any time. According to ABA – Invest in Austria, no other Austrian province launches so many innovative products and services on the market as Styria does. With a research and development ratio of 5.16 percent, Styria ranks amongst the best regions in Europe. The reasons for this are the excellent education, research and corporate environment and most importantly the people in the province. With five universities teaching more than 55,000 students, an internationally renowned university of applied sciences system as well as many research institutions, Styria is the Austria’s technology factory, so to speak. As a logical consequence the proportion of highly qualified employees is remarkably high.
Styrian “Minister for the Future” Barbara Eibinger-Miedl
Styrian competences ABA lists 18 competence centres; one of them is the Austrian Research Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Acib). Acib acts as a significant link between research and industry and is forming a network of around 200 universities and companies from the biotechnology sector such as BASF, DSM, Sandoz, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV, Jungbunzlauer and VTU Technology. The international competence centre is headquartered in Austria (with sites in Graz, Innsbruck, Tulln and Vienna) and also has further sites in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Hamburg (Germany), Pavia
