Today's most important raw material is knowledge. However, a raw material must first be extracted, purified, refined and processed. And this is exactly what tecnet equity, the technology financing company of the state of Lower Austria, does as part of its technology transfer program. “The findings of science become products, the researchers become entrepreneurs,” emphasizes Jochen Danninger. “This makes the potential of research and development in Lower Austria usable for the economy and thus for the general public, creating jobs, added value and thus also prosperity for the Lower Austrian population.”
Since 1923, around 45,500 Lower Austrians have registered a patent worldwide. “More than 20,200 patent and trademark applications have been filed from Lower Austria since the mid-1970s. These mainly include electrical machines, monitoring and control instruments, transport and logistics solutions as well as special machines,” explains Stefan Harasek, Vice President of the Austrian Patent Office.
Many of these inventions can also be seen in the Vienna Museum of Technology. “Bold ideas, visionary outside-the-box thinking and innovative solutions are needed, especially for the major challenges of our time. This is what the resourceful minds in Lower Austria's companies and research centers are known for - and this is how the inventive spirit of the past can be revived today and in the future,” says the Director General of Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, Peter Aufreiter.
“True innovation puts people at the center. Too often, new technologies try to solve problems that we don't even have - and then condemn the marketing department to sell them,” emphasizes futurologist Tristan Horx.
