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

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.

A great step to internationalization has been made with the international incubator Hagenberg which is initiated by Softwarpark Hagenberg and tech2b, the high-tech business incubator in Linz, Austria.

The offer is aimed at IT professionals from around the world with innovative ideas who want to establish a company in the Softwarepark Hagenberg. With the support of Upper Austrian government and regional bank Raiffeisenlandesbank an area in the Softwarepark with necessary infrastructure has been established to support innovative startups. Additionally, the incubator program offers equity capital for the development and marketing of the product in the first years.

An expert board will determine which project and business ides in the incubator should be pursued. The active support will be carried out by tech2b, the high-tech business incubator by using a new incubation process to prepare startups for their international market positioning.

To create more room for new teams a joint action of startups and business coaches helped to transport a large number of furniture to the new offices. Many helping hands were coordinated by Nadja in order to get all the heavy packages safe in the second floor. This action showed once again the commitment and the spirit within tech2b.

By the way, more room could be necessary after receiving more teams in the incubation program. A lot of new start-ups and high-tech ideas are in the starting blocks to apply for the program

Three new startup teams are part of the incubation program at tech2b after paasing the technology commission. Each team is working in different technology field. One concentrates on green tech, the others more on IT related topics with a time tracking software as well as an interactive sensors located system.

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