1. Styria, No.1 State in
Engineering and R&D
Gerald Fasching

2. Key figures Styria: area: 16.387 sqkm population: 1,2 mio.
Introduction of Styria
Styria:
area: sqkm
population: 1,2 mio.
second largest state of Austria
nine universities
> students
mediterran influenced climate
Graz:
capital of Styria
population in the area Graz:
second largest city of Austria
International Airport Graz
UNESCO City of Design
Austria:
population: 8,8 mio.
capital: Vienna

3. Some outstanding facts
Introduction of Styria
One of highest R&D rates in Europe with 5.14 %
55 % of Austria‘s researchers at technical Unis work in Styria
7 of 10 Austrian companies with the highest R&D ratio are located here (
Joanneum Research: one of Austria‘s largest R&D institution with about 440 employees
25 out of 42 Austrian Competence Centres
New 280 M€ R&D centre for EBS is raised, headquartered in Graz

4. Key data of SFG SFG – The Styrian Business Promotion Agency
founded 1991
owned by the state of Styria
Responsible for implementing the economic strategy
financial support for R&D, investment in production facilities, qualification of employees, internationalization projects, start-ups, VC, …
cluster strategy, impulse centres, investor’s service, cross border co-operation (EEN), …
about 60 employees
grants given 2018: EUR 57 mio. for 2376 projects

5. Cluster Policy
SFG – The Styrian Business Promotion Agency
Health-Tec one of the three key-topics in Styrian Innovation Strategy
About 150 companies (4.9 bn.€ turnover)
employees in the sector
University Clinic Graz – largest (area) hospital in Europe -
€ 380 Mio. Medical Science City
relevant topics at all Universities, several outstanding R&D-centres
world wide largest biobank with >20 Mio. human biological pathogene samples – biobank.medunigraz.at
Establishment of HTS cluster 2004, today 120 members -
Center for medical research ZMF 1

6. Selected Research Initiatives
SFG – The Styrian Business Promotion Agency
RCPE – Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering
ACIB – Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology
CBmed – Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine
BBMRI – Biobanking & Biomolecular Resource Research Infrastructure
ZWT – Centre for Science and Technology Transfer in Medicine
RCPE 100 MA
ACIB 280 MA, 100 Stmk
CBMED 60 MA
Microbiom Initiative Graz
CD LAB Liquid Biopsies
LBI Clinical Forensic Imaging
CD LAB Adipositas
LBI Lung Vascular Research

7. Coming up next… April 14th: Life science trip to Israel
April 30th: Digital Dialog: demands from economy on academia, Graz Campus 02
May 7th: FF4U Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz
May 8th-10th: Health Conference Alps-Adria 2019: “Active and Healthy Ageing” as a model for our future, Bad Radkersburg
June 12th: Zukunftstag, Messe Congress Graz
June 17th: trip to CPhI China, Shanghai
September 10th: FF4U Technologypark SPACE ONE, Graz

8.
Gerald Fasching
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