The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber invested the special award Econovius for the most innovative small and medium-sized businesses within the framwork of the state award for innovation. The tech2b start-up isiQiri interface technologies has been awarded with this special price for their interactive projection screen Q-Screen. Possible fields of application could be interactive Screens for video games, creative teamwork, interactive marketing or digital whiteboards.
The Department of Commerce has advertised the state award for innovation for the most innovative Austrian Enterprises for the 31st time. This year 614 (!) projects had been handed in for evaluation. The winners of the prices, which were chosen by a jury with top-class members, have been awarded at the 22nd of March 2011 by the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Reinhold Mitterlehner.
Link: Website isiQiri
Muscles made of gum, which transfer waves in energy or eatable sensors, which measure the maturity level of fruits and vegetables. That is the result, when inventors get mad.
Lately the online news portal told us about new inventions. Among others the tech2b incubator based in the software park Hagenberg, was listed.
Welt-Online has interviewed Siegfried Bauer, professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and says:
“The enterprise isiQiri has already launched Qfoil. The flexible plastics consists of small sensors which are thinner than one millimeter and which are able to catch focused beams of light. Due to this fact illustrations of a computer screen can be beamed on a wall and controlled by a laser pointer. A program can be started by touching the projected symbol with the focused beam of light.”
To be able to operate this flexible electronic which can be worked into textiles or printed upon them, the required accumulators have to be flexible too. Only in this case it would be possible to keep the MP3-Player within the pullover going. “We want to build the first elastic battery” says Bauer. A start has been made already. The Scientists have developed elastomeres and electrodes on the base of a gel which can be pulled to twice of the original length without making the battery inoperable. A gel in printed form should also be used for electrical pipes. An alternative could also be vapor deposited layers of gold.
Representatives of the new partner of BBI component, hightech incubator tech2b have been visiting business incubators in Subotica, Senta, Zrenjanin and Novi Sad. On this occasion, managers of Austrian incubator Dietmer Kirchweger and Hubert Preisinger will get to know the accomplishments of the four incubators in Vojvodina and meet with relevant persons who cooperate within the Building Business Incubators Fund and IRDP project.
Accompanied by Ljubomir Aleskic, BBI measure manager, Kirchweger and Preisinger visited Subotica, where they met with the management of BIS and representatives of local government, as well as the incubees. Afterwards, Austrian partners spent a day in business incubator in Senta and on meetings in Novi Sad, and the final visit brougt them to Zrenjanin.
This visit is one of the activities of BBI programme, implemented by the Provincial Secretariat for Economy within the project Strategic partnership in support of the Integrated Regional Development Plan of AP Vojvodina.
The Steering Board decided on its second session on December, 17 2009 to accept a new team for the International Incubator Hagenberg program. Professor Bruno Buchberger, initiator of the international incubator and head of the Steering Board was satisfied with the unanimous decision to accept the project and thanked tech2b for doing a good job as operating organization of the program.
As part of an Entrepreneurship lecture on December, 2nd 2009 Professor Bruno Buchberger and Mag. Wolfgang Schulnig presented the International Incubator Hagenberg to the students of the International Master’s Program in Informatics. The 22 young students from Egypt, Romania and Japan were very interested in the support the Hagenberg incubator is offering them for the realization of their business ideas.
The possibility of founding a start-up company in the frame of the Incubator, is an important reason for these students to enroll into the International Master’s Program in Hagenberg.
Mag. Wolfgang Schulnig seized the so called ‘FH Day’ to get an impression of the study programs at the Upper Austrian university of applied sciences, campus Hagenberg. In lectures on network engineering and compiler construction he was able to witness the profound education in IT basics for himself. With the presented study projects from the fields of near field communication, mobile computing and virtual surgery the students showed a high level of dedication and the ability to apply the acquired knowledge.
Mag. Wolfgang Schulnig was very satisfied with what he saw, ‘Today’s students with their practical education are tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. Beside that they play an important role for the attractiveness of the Softwarepark Hagenberg as a site for IT businesses, which is a crucial part of the offer of the International Incubator Hagenberg.’
Of course one day is not enough time to attend classes of all study programs
Muhammad Zaki Mohd Saman and Professor Bruno Buchberger
A delegation from the Malaysian ICT-Park Cyberjaya led by Muhammad Zaki Mohd Saman visited the Softwarepark Hagenberg on the 10th of November. Cyberjaya City, 50 km south of the capital Kuala Lumpur, is the home of three universities, some hundreds of companies and approximately 37.000 inhabitants.
The guests were very interested in Professor Bruno Buchberger’s presentation on the concept and the development of the Softwarepark Hagenberg. Mag. Wolfgang Schulnig also raised great interest with his presentation on the International Incubator Hagenberg. In Malaysia a comparable institution shall be installed soon. Hence there were a lot of questions during lunch. Both sides agreed that the knowledge transfer shall be continued in the future.
On October 16 Professor David Pistrui from Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) visited Linz to attend a technology business lunch organized by Austrian Trade. As director for Entrepreneurship and Innovation he had a presentation on the “technology transfer ecosystem” at his home university. Based on his rich experience in the field of international entrepreneurship he instantly had some interesting ideas concerning the newly installed international incubator in Hagenberg. For the Upper Austrian economic and scientific landscape he was using a lot of warm words, praising the innovative character of the region. He was also interested in finding possibilities for a cooperation between the International Incubator Hagenberg and the corresponding organizations at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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