Business Location Carinthia

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Carinthia brings together top-notch expertise, advanced technologies and an attractive mix of industries embedded in a highly innovative environment. Located in the very heart of Europe, Start-ups benefit not only from stable legal framework conditions but also from a business-friendly tax system and an excellent range of funding opportunities. Carinthia combines superior expertise, advanced technologies and an attractive mix of industries with a highly innovative environment. Its R&D rate has been on the rise since 2009! At the same time, with 75% Carinthia sees an extraordinary high share of research based in the companies. It goes without saying that start-ups and scale-ups are the champions of technological and economic progress. They create the markets of tomorrow and make a tremendous contribution to economic growth and competitiveness. Start-ups and scale-ups are not just buzzwords. Internationally, many enterprises have come to rely on their ability to improve performance in a wide range of industries. Which is why start-ups and scale-ups are key to the Carinthian economy. It is here where connections to scientific institutions, SMEs and other industries are forged and where cooperation partners and industrial enterprises benefit from the latest scientific findings and the start-ups’ and scale-ups’ innovative ideas and solutions. Leading global enterprises, such as Infineon Technologies Austria, Lam Research, KapschTrafficCom or Flex are a decisive factor in Carinthia’s exceptional competence in technology. Such global players and lots of research-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises have a determining influence on future developments, amongst others in microelectronics, robotics, IT and drone communication technologies.

BABEG

Our mission at BABEG| Invest in Carinthia is to offer free of charge support and strategic advice to foreign companies to help them set up and grow their businesses in Carinthia. We invest in non-university associations to strengthen technical research and innovations in the south of Austria. We inform and connect – beyond borders. Babeg is looking for foreign companies like yours that are seeking to use and further develop the knowledge, technological developments and research that Carinthia has to offer.

KWF

Start-ups and entrepreneurs have to think very quickly in the course of their development and network accordingly in order to be able to offer their products and services to international markets. The more supporting infrastructure, financing and services they find, the more promising are their entrepreneurial plans. Positioning Carinthia, Slovenia and also Northern Italy and Styria together is an exceptional opportunity for the potential in the various ecosystems, which can be closely coordinated to focus on their regional advantages and thus together offer a functioning ecosystem. Each region in itself is very strong in certain areas. The weaknesses can be neutralized through the cooperation of the regions. You need an openness to share your experience and expertise with your partners. Together, a strong and visible ecosystem can emerge. The involvement of all relevant actors has emerged in the past as a key factor for successfully designing the startup landscape. The focus is not so much on the satisfaction of the individual sensitivities, but that every institution or initiative makes its contribution. It is important that activities can grow out of the start-up community, including the participation of all relevant stakeholders and by connecting to international networks. The KWF Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungs Fonds plays a neutral, coordinating role in Carinthia, in the StartNet Carinthia, so that the overall system is able to develop well.

ABA

ABA – Invest in Austria, the national foreign direct investment promotion agency, offers customized information, support and consulting to international start-ups and companies that evaluate Austria as a possible business location. Our assistance and support are provided through the whole process of a possible internationalisation project – starting with first market evaluation to assistance in the realization phase and also after the company has been established. All our services are free of charge.

Lakeside Science & Technology Park

A thriving ecosystem of collaboration between research & development, education and enterprises – the triangle of knowledge sets the vision and framework for the innovation center in the South of Austria neighboring Slovenia and Italy. At Lakeside Science & Technology Park cooperation is daily business to the 1.300 people gathering in multinational ICT enterprises, SMEs and research oriented companies. It’s rather easy to bump into a robotics-researcher on the way to pick up your take-away lunch in the park’s restaurant, or to get in touch with a drone-swarm on your daily work-out at the streetball court – it might also happen that a bachelor thesis applied in the university of Klagenfurt on campus makes its way to a successful start-up. Short ways between partners and the gathering of research institutions, enterprises and the start-up center build! ease up interdisciplinary approaches – but in the end it’s the people who drive innovation. It is you becoming part of this thinking, where One and One is Eleven!

build!

build! is the competence-, support-, and development center for technology-oriented and knowledge-based start-ups and scale-up projects of young companies – „Young Entrepreneurs Group“ (5y) build! offers project development of regional business opportunities for high potential technology-oriented and knowledge-based start-ups or scale-up. As incubator build! provides services for startups from idea to scale up. The build! network including industry partner, corporates, mentors and financiers provides startups great connections to grow their business.

Joanneum Research Robotics

Robot systems will change many aspects of our business and everyday life, as well as how we implement the automated production of the future. JOANNEUM RESEARCH ROBOTICS as applied research lab provides essential competences in modern robot system technologies. The institute utilizes its human-robot co-working lab-space for hands-on development of novel robotic solutions. Partners from industry and innovators take advantage of this facility to develop demanding manipulation and intra-logistic tasks for a digitized production environment. Advanced sensor systems for robot perception, as well as AI, high performance computing and 5G networking build the scientific and technological basis for our applied research endeavours. Safety and cyber security for robots that will operate with and around us extends our research endeavours towards obtaining trustworthy machine-partners and versatile robotic-power tools. JOANNEUM RESEARCH can act as partner along the full R&D spectrum. The institute’s ROBOTICS Evaluation Lab supports this endeavour as enabling test centre for robot safety.

Lakeside Labs

Lakeside Labs is a non-profit, public-owned research centre on self-organizing networked systems. Research topics are the design of self-organizing networked systems, autonomous multi-robot and multi-UAV systems as well as wireless communication, especially in challenging environments (e.g. industrial sensor networks). A strong focus is on coordination of complex networked cyber-physical systems with methods from self-organization (e.g. swarm algorithms, evolutionary design). These methods are applied to multiple autonomous robots (unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), wireless communication technologies, as well as distributed coordination of agent-based systems (production, logistics, autonomous cars, etc.).

Silicon Alps Cluster

It goes without saying that start-ups and scale-ups are the champions of technological and economic progress. They create the markets of tomorrow and make a tremendous contribution to economic growth and competitiveness. Start-ups and scale-ups are not just buzzwords. Internationally, many enterprises have come to rely on their ability to improve performance in a wide range of industries.
Which is why start-ups and scale-ups are key to the Silicon Alps Cluster. It is here where connections to scientific institutions, SMEs and other industries are forged and where cooperation partners and industrial enterprises benefit from the latest scientific findings and the start-ups’ and scale-ups’ innovative ideas and solutions.
Silicon Alps has been Austria’s Startup Ambassador for two years now and has worked with further European countries on the DeepTech4Good/Scale-EUp2 project, one of the initiatives of Horizon 2020, the world’s largest transnational research and innovation programme. The aim of DeepTech4Good/Scale-EUp2 is to identify 200 European high-potential start-ups in the fields of health technology, smart mobility, smart cities and industry 4.0 and to support their scale-up efforts.

Slovene Economic Association

Slovenska gospodarska zveza (Slovene Economic Association) has approximately 350 members, entrepreneurs from the entire Alps-Adriatic region, predominantly from Austria and Slovenia. Our purpose is to strengthen cross-border economic activities and to connect and network with economic institutions and companies in the entire region. Slovenska gospodarska zveza is the Slovenian business club in Austria. It provides companies with information and numerous contacts for an effective and successful entry into the Austrian market.

Silicon Austria Labs

Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) is a research center for Electronic Based Systems (EBS). Electronic Based Systems are components, assemblies and devices with micro- and nanoelectronics as well as embedded software. Nowadays, they are in almost every technical device – whether smartphone, tablet or vehicle – and form the technological backbone of digitization. At three locations (Graz, Villach, Linz), SAL is conducting research along the entire EBS value chain in the areas of sensor systems, power electronics, RF (radio frequency) systems, integration technologies and embedded systems, and is laying the basis for smart products and processes that create the foundations for things such as Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IOT), autonomous driving, cyber-physical systems (CPS), AI, smart cities, smart energy and smart health. Research is carried out at both model level and hardware level (components, assemblies and devices with microelectronics and nanoelectronics) as well as the attendant embedded software level, in conjunction with the holistic knowledge of comprehensive system integration.