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Vienna Region / High Tech Due to the settlement of international companies such as eTel and Nokia, in the technology centre in Eisenstadt the focus lies in the information and communication business. LUDWIG RUSCH The Business & Research Center Höchstädtplatz provides space for companies focusing on information and communication technologies. Seriously on the Up Innovative companies and good ideas dominate the IT landscape in Austria. In the last few years Vienna has established itself as the most important point in Central Europe for information and communication technologies (ICT). With over 8,000 companies and 75,000 employees, Vienna is among Europe’s elite, along with Munich and London, and international groups such as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Philips, IBM and Alcatel have established their Eastern European headquarters here. Vienna is the gateway to the East in the ICT sector as well, functioning as an infrastructurally high-quality location which offers an ideal setting for developing the new growth markets. To strengthen and develop the location further the Vienna Business Agency (VBA) has recently begun implementing a series of measures. Among them are the creation of stateof-the-art technology and start-up centres such as the Business & Research Center Höchstädtplatz as well as the establishment of the IT network Vienna IT Enterprises (VITE). Nearly 100 companies as well as educational and R&D institutions have bundled their areas of competency in the ‘two-year-young’ network. As a platform for the implementation of businessoriented ideas and projects, VITE (www.vite.at) has made development of its partners’ strengths in innovation and competitive capacities as well as the increase in awareness of the City of Vienna as an IT location its medium and long-term goal. In Burgenland WiBAG is active as a stimulus to the economy and the IT scene is concentrated in the technology centre of Eisenstadt, where international giants such as Nokia and eTel have pitched their tents. With 40 employees on location, in Eisenstadt Nokia focuses on service for mobile communication providers rather than mobile phone production. For Mobilkom Austria, for example, Nokia operates a push-to-talk platform, a form of news transmission which is used in the security branch as well as in large enterprises. Every push-to-talk call between Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria runs through the system in Eisenstadt. eTel, Austria’s second largest alternative telephone and internet provider with 100 employees is also satisfied: “The technology park in Eisenstadt is the perfect location for us because the expansion of eTel’s subsidiaries to the new EU countries of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland will be accelerated from our headquarters in Eisenstadt,” says eTel Board member Achim Kaspar. The Vienna Region plays host to more than just international IT groups however. Lining up with interesting technologies are domestic companies, including highly successful start-ups. The young Viennese company Jajah, for example, offers internet telephony, or Skype ‘Austria style’: after entering your own number and the number you are calling online, the service connects the callers on the conventional telephone at the low-cost internet rate. This technology rapidly brought the innovative start-up investors and international recognition. Logistics-intensive companies with production and storage of national and international format have also settled in Lower Austria, for example the computer manufacturer Acer Austria in Brunn am Gebirge. Moreover, Lower Austria is proud of the successes of the broadband initiative launched in 2003, for whose implementation the EVN Group’s companies nökom and kabelsignal are responsible: according to a survey by ecoplus, if at that time 400 of 573 Lower Austrian communities were still without broadband, today 556 communities have been provided with it. “Lower Austria’s initial spark for broadband was effective, for wavenet has expanded considerably beyond what was contractually required. Our targets were exceeded! We now provide broadband services to more than 35,000 customers in Lower Austria,” says nökom Managing Director Alois Ecker. 46 LOCATIONAUSTRIA 02/2006
The Home of High-tech Stars Vienna Region / High Tech The Vienna Region's excellent economic data speak for themselves. Its outstanding infrastructure, Austria's attractive tax policy and a location in the heart of Europe have resulted in the region's development as an important economic area in the centre of the European Union in the past few years. EU enlargement and proximity to growth markets in Central and Eastern Europe make the region's chances of further successful economic development very good. It is therefore no surprise that numerous high-tech enterprises are relying on the Vienna Region's amenities. I&T Innovation Technology Entwicklungs- und Holding AG Innovation Technology Entwicklungsund Holding AG, located in Siegendorf, Burgenland, counts as one of the most innovative firms for flat conductor technologies in the auto-supply industry. Diamond Aircraft Industries Diamond Aircraft – an international manufacturer of the most modern glassand carbon-fiber composite aircraft – has its headquarters, design centre, development division, production facilities and distribution centre in Wiener Neustadt. Some 500 employees research and develop other applications in a production area of 22,000 m2 I&T INNOVATION . LEXEDIS Lighting GmbH The firm LEXEDIS Lighting, located in Jennersdorf, specialises in highly-efficient digital light sources. With its new technology "XED," it has transcended the existing frontiers of old technology and given birth to the next generation of LED-light sources. DILEXEDIS LIGHTING GMBH DIAMOND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES igm Robotersysteme AG As Austria's only manufacturer of robots, which are specifically developed for electric-arc welding, the firm puts comprehensive technical knowledge at the customers' disposal. At the headquarters in Wiener Neustadt, the development and construction, international marketing and service divisions among others, of this internationally active firm, are located. Intercell AG Biotech firm Intercell, on the Campus Vienna Biocenter at the Vienna Life Sciences Center, specialises in the development of modern vaccines against infectious diseases and counts as one of the most successful in its field. At the moment 160 employees of the comprehensive firm are developing a very promising vaccine against Japanese encephalitis. arsenal research Vienna research center ‘arsenal research’, located since autumn 2005 at Technology and Start-up Centre TECHbase Vienna, offers comprehensive benefits in the energy and mobility sectors. Through demand and market-oriented research, ‘arsenal research’ is improving the innovative ability of its numerous business, scientific and public partners and thereby boosting their competitiveness. ARSENAL RESEARCH Eybl International Eybl International, based in Krems, has 4,178 employees. In addition to textiles for the auto industry (nine of the ten most-important firms are among its customers), the firm produces ‘fashion textiles’ for sports and leisure-time clothing. Eybl's own research centre in Krems has contributed to continuous improvement of the firm's products. DIEYBL INTERNATIONAL 02/2006 LOCATIONAUSTRIA 47
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