1. Bruno Lindorfer Managing Director
„Innovative Upper Austria“ Upper Austria – Austria‘s leading state with regard to exports, industry, innovation and technology

2. Upper Austria is the nation’s leading federal province with regard to industry, exports and technology:
14% of area – 11,982 km²
17% of the population –
approx. 25% of industrial production
27% of the exports of the Federal Republic of Austria

3. Upper Austria - Austria’s export motor
Upper Austria - Austria’s export motor! Exports of the Austrian states (production sector)
€ bn
Austria 2007: € 78.1 bn
Source: WKO Inhouse Statistic

4. A region with sustained economic dynamism Employed persons trend 1970 – 2008%
1970 = 100
Upper Austria
Lower Austria
Austria
Styria
Vienna
Source: Association of Austrian Social Insurance Funds

5. The lowest unemployment rate of all the Austrian states Comparison of unemployment rates by Austrian states Annual average 2008
5.8% Austria
3.5
3.9
5.2
5.9
6.1
7.4
7.2
7.8
5.5
Source: AMS OÖ

6. Austria‘s leading technology region Austrian Patents Office applications and allocations by Austrian states (2008)
Source: Austrian Patents Office. April 2008

7. Technology business area Location marketing business area
Our services
OÖ. Technologie- und Marketinggesellschaft m.b.H. (TMG) is Upper Austria‘s technology and location development agency.
Technology business area
Location marketing business area
Management of the “Innovative Upper Austria 2010” strategic programme 2010
EU-programmes
Innovation investment management
Business location and location development
Marketing for Upper Austrian as a business location
Co-ordination of Impulse centers
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8. Clusters and inter-branch networks in Upper Austria
Furniture & timber construction
Eco-Energy
(Upper Austrian Energiesparverband)
Plastics
Health Technology
Food
(Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce)
Automotive
Mechatronics
Logistics
(Association for Network Logistics)
Environmental Technology
Human Resources
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9. The strategic programmes:
Upper Austria places a systematic reliance on innovation
Upper Austria strategic programme
1998 – 2003
3 strategic areas
Total budget: € 300 m
Upper Austria contribution: € 80 m
“Innovative Upper Austria 2010” strategic programme
2005 – 2010
5 strategic areas
43 measures (Priority 1)
250 experts
Total budget: € 600 m
Upper Austria contribution: € 200 m

10. Vision: Upper Austria as Europe’s leading region for innovation
Topic areas     
Research & Development
Professional qualification
Networks
Business and technology location Upper Austria
EU – networking

11. Topic area R&D Lightweight construction and innovative materials
Logistics
Mechatronics and process automation
Computer and communications technology
Life Sciences

12. Impulse centres in Upper Austria

13. Hagenberg Software Park The Austrian software competence centre
The Hagenberg Software Park is a “magma” of independent partners, which together cover all aspects of the software area, namely research, education and applications.
1,300 students thereof
1,150 students of University of Applied Sciences
46 companies
8 research institutes
approx employees

14. Softwarepark Hagenberg 20081)
1) planning the remainder: existing buildings

15. Google goes Upper Austria!
Location: Kronstorf (near Enns) – establishment of a data centre.
May 2007: initial contact to the ABA in New York (code name “A4”) via Price Waterhouse.
Locations in more than ten European states examined.
Five Austrian federal provinces applied, three of which were viewed by “A4”.
European shortlist with ten locations.
Preliminary selection of Kronstorf at the end of 2007.
Contracts signed for the purchase of a 75ha site in November 2008.
Important location factors:
Property, energy supply, cooling water, data lines, available labour, “investment climate” (local and regional politicians and authorities, stability, support by TMG and ABA, etc.).

16. „Innovation is 1 % Inspiration and 99 % Transpiration“
Albert Einstein

17. Upper Austria‘s regional development
TMG
Upper Austria‘s regional development
and innovation agency
OÖ. Technologie- und Marketinggesellschaft m.b.H., Hafenstraße 47-51, 4020 Linz
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