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1 VIENNA. THE DIGITAL CITY. ICT Busiess ad Research i Viea Muicipal Departmet für EU-Strategy ad Ecoomic Developmet

2 Imprit Editors: MA 27 Muicipal Departmet for EU-Strategy ad Ecoomic Developmet Christie Wazeböck Schlesigerplatz 2, 1082 Viea Phoe: /27025 [email protected] Cotet: ITBeurope/CEcosult GmbH, Viea ( This brochure is based o the fidigs of a survey commissioed by the Muicipal Departmet 27 (EU-Strategy ad Ecoomic Developmet) o Viea as a ICT locatio. Graphic Desig: Christia Gallei, Photos: Igo Pertramer, Chili Gallei, Gebhart/fotografisch.at, Toksave, Berhard Schmid, iauri, Berd Eurig, Mobilkom Austria, Igo Wessely, TU Wie, TTTech AG, FTW, Media Quarter Marx, Otto Bock, Hauswirth, Igo Wessely, Mafred Seidl, VRVis, VieaGIS, Museumsquartier Productio: Lideau Productios GmbH, This brochure may cotai leaflets o further related topics i the pocket o the cover page. If missig, please cotact: [email protected] 2009 Muicipal Departmet of Viea

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4 Dear Readers, You have probably heard of Viea, ad you may have already bee there. Viea: famed city of music ad cultural metropolis at the heart of Europe. Viea is amog the top-raked cities worldwide i terms of quality of life. But Viea has eve more to offer. Viea is a vibrat busiess locatio, a hub betwee East ad West, host to oe of the three iteratioal UN headquarters, ad oe of Europe s hottest spots i terms of creative idustries ad digital techologies. Reate Brauer Vice Mayor ad Deputy Goveror Executive City Coucillor of Fiaces, Ecoomic Affairs ad Viea Public Eterprises of the City of Viea This brochure should give you a overview of Viea s assets i the world of iformatio ad commuicatio techologies. The city is proud of its excellet broadbad ifrastructure ad its highly raked e-govermet services. It ejoys global reow i the area of electroic music. It boasts umerous eterprises, both large ad small, developig high-tech products ad services ad exportig them to markets all over the world. It also has excellet schools ad uiversities whose achievemets play a role i the curret ad future place of Viea amog the most prosperous cities i Europe. Viea s muicipal admiistratio has itroduced a wide rage of support measures to foster the city s trasitio ito the iformatio age, icludig the groudbreakig digitalizatio of the admiistratio itself; the implemetatio of fiber to the home (FTTH); fiacial support of the idustry; ad the establishmet of etworks to aid research ad busiess i collaboratio ad iteratioalizatio. The busiess ad research agecies of the City of Viea the Viea Busiess Agecy or VBA ( Viea IT Eterprises or VITE ( ad the Ceter for Iovatio ad Techology ( - will be at your service if you are iterested i movig your busiess to Viea or i cooperatig with a Vieese compay or uiversity. I wish you much success i all your busiess vetures ad look forward to seeig you i Viea soo. Yours Reate Brauer Seite 2

5 Dear Readers, The ICT idustry is boomig all over the world ad i Viea, too. This brochure describes the fidigs of a study o Viea as a ICT locatio. It was carried out i 2007 ad commissioed by the Muicipal Departmet for EU-Strategy ad Ecoomic Developmet ( The study shows that the added value of Viea s ICT idustry is six times higher tha that of Viea s traditioal maistay, the tourism idustry. I 2006, the combied gross reveue of approximately 5,500 compaies, from small eterprises to multiatioal corporatios, amouted to approximately 20 billio. Thus the ICT idustry is oe of the pillars of the city s wealth. Thaks to its locatio at the heart of Europe, Viea is a very iteratioal city ad fuctios as a hub for the Cetral ad Easter Europea coutries. It excels i terms of quality of life. It has extremely high stadards i educatio ad vocatioal traiig. Berhard Schmid Project Maager Viea IT Eterprises (VITE) / Viea Busiess Agecy (VBA) Austria is a pioeer i ivestig ad workig i ew markets. Austria is the biggest ivestor i Bulgaria, Croatia ad Sloveia, ad raks amog the top three i several other coutries of the regio such as the Czech Republic, Hugary ad Slovakia. Most of these activities origiate i Viea, where the majority of the big idustry players are foud. This settig is also a icubator for youg ad iovative start ups ad it sets stadards for the city s future as a importat ICT locatio. As a busiess, it is worth your while to eter ito cooperatio with IT compaies located i Viea. Ad the beefits of foudig or relocatig a busiess i this attractive city are also worth cosiderig. We would be happy to provide assistace i all matters related to doig busiess i Viea. Yours Berhard Schmid Seite 3

6 INTRODUCTION Viea: The Soud of High-Tech Viea: The Soud of High-Tech Viea is already world famous for its cultural heritage ad classical music. I the past decades it has also become oe of Europe s leadig covetio cities. But a eve more recet developmet ivolves the city s boomig digital idustry. Its added value for the muicipality is six times greater tha that of the tourism idustry. Viea is the biggest ICT hub for Cetral ad Easter Europe ad is oe of the regio s mai ICT-related research locatios. This stadig has bee achieved i part due to the City of Viea s forwardlookig, headlie strategy for research ad techological developmet: Wie dekt Zukuft, or Viea Looks to the Future ( >>> The followig pages will provide a overview of Viea ad its ICT idustry. Gross turover of the Viea ICT idustry grew to more tha 24 billio i 2007, 30% of which was i export. Nearly 60% of all export reveues came from the ew EU member states ad Easter Europea coutries. Numerous ICT multiatioals ad Austria compaies maage their CEE operatios from Viea. The city hosts importat subsidiaries of Siemes, Philips, Alcatel, SAP ad more. Viea s highlights iclude digital image processig ad computer visio, embedded systems, e-govermet, quatum computig, speech processig, traffic telematics ad the vast area of creative idustries. Viea houses all istitutios of Austria s federal govermet. Ad Austria cosistetly scores amog the top coutries i Europea e-govermet rakigs, a accomplishmet which has a lot to do with the efforts udertake by the city of Viea itself. For example, there are the umerous activities of the city s public fudig bodies, the Viea Busiess Agecy (VBA) ad its Ceter for Techology ad Iovatio (ZIT); its platforms for ICT ad the creative idustries, VITE ad departure, respectively; ad also the Viea Sciece ad Techology Fud (WWTF). Viea is also the settig for Europe s most competitive mobile commuicatios market. As oe spokesperso for Alcatel Lucet Austria, the Austria subsidiary of the Frech ICT giat, claims, if you ca make it i Viea, you ca make it aywhere. Seite 4

7 CONTENT Viea: The Basics 7 Export ad Foreig Markets 11 Quatum Computig 15 Semicoductors 16 Near Field Commuicatio 17 Embedded Systems 19 RFID 20 Mobile Telephoy & Computig 21 Sematic Systems 23 Speech Processig 24 Computer Visio 25 Artificial Itelligece 27 Metrology/Sesorics, Simulatio, Optimizatio ad Forecastig 28 Geographic Iformatio Systems 29 Traffic Telematics & Road Pricig 31 E-Govermet & E-Health 32 Digital Culture 35 ICT Addresses ad Cotacts 39 Seite 5

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9 VIENNA: THE BASICS A Traditioal Face with a High-Tech Heart A Traditioal Face with a High-Tech Heart Viea ( is the capital of Austria ad a federal republic at the heart of Europe. Historically, geographically ad ecoomically, the city has log bee Europe s leadig hub for doig busiess i Cetral ad Easter Europe ad beyod. The iteratioal iformatio ad commuicatio idustries i particular have selected Viea as their Cetral Europea ceter. With aroud 1.8 millio ihabitats, Viea is the third-largest uiversity locatio i the Germa-speakig realm ad raks amog the top three cities worldwide i terms of quality of life ad public safety. Viea s muicipal admiistratio is oe of Europe s most efficiet. It is also raked amog the cities with the highest desity of broadbad access. Thaks to the Viea Iteratioal Airport ( it boasts the highest umber of flights to Cetral ad Easter Europe as well as Cetral Asia. To top it off, it also has a excellet public trasportatio etwork ( As the capital of Austria, Viea profits from the coutry s high productivity, low uemploymet rate, low iflatio rate, ad extremely low strike rate ( Amog iteratioal cities, Viea has oe of the very lowest levels of corruptio. Viea has a excellet educatioal ifrastructure o all levels. It is home to aroud 20 iteratioal schools where studets are taught i as may laguages, from Arabic, Czech, Eglish, Frech, Germa, Japaese, Russia to Swedish. Iovative compaies based i Viea profit from a extesive public fudig system for start ups, research ad developmet ad a wide rage of other support measures. Although Viea is a historic city with imperial gradeur, it has a exceedigly moder ifrastructure which accommodates a costatly growig idustry. The Viea property market cotiued its positive developmet i 2007, whe ew lettig reached a record high of 385,000 m 2 ad the property ivestmet market saw a record volume of 2.8 billio. The high level of occupacy is maily due to relocatios, with may compaies movig ito moder, more efficiet office space, such as the projects Doau City ( Busiess Park Viea ( ad TowTow ( At the same time, Viea s office space retal rates are amog the most affordable i Europe. Brigitte Ederer, CEO Siemes Austria Brigitte Ederer studied ecoomics ad worked for Austria s Chamber of Labour, was Member of Parliamet, chaired several parliametary committees, was Miister of State for Europea Itegratio ad Developmet Cooperatio ad later Miister of State for Europea Affairs, Secretary Geeral of Austria s Social Democratic Party, the Executive City Coucillor for Fiace, Ecoomic Affairs ad the Public Eterprises of the City of Viea ad, i 2005, became Chief Executive Officer of Siemes AG Austria. Today, Brigitte Ederer is CEO of Siemes Austria ad of the compay s CEE cluster cosistig of 17 coutries i Cetral ad Easter Europe. Siemes Austria is also the headquarters of Siemes program ad software developmet divisio PSE. The high-tech district Doau City, oe of may tech hot spots i Viea. I the foregroud, the city s more traditioal silhouette. Seite 7

10 VIENNA: THE BASICS Educatio & Vocatioal Traiig Educatio & Vocatioal Traiig: Excellet Skills for a Soud Ecoomy A survey by Austria s major ecoomic research istitute WIFO reveals that multiatioals located i Viea ame two mai criteria for their decisio to come to ad remai i Viea: the availability of a qualified workforce ad the high level of school educatio. These two factors are obviously iterrelated. Austria s school system ad particularly Viea s, where the desity ad variety of schools is the highest has two mai advatages for high-tech idustries: The dual vocatioal traiig system ( requires vocatioal studets (usually at the age of fiftee, whe madatory schoolig eds) to apply for a appropriate job at a certified compay. Employig vocatioal studets obliges compaies to fulfill demadig criteria; altogether, this results i a high educatioal level. Austria s appretices are raked at the very top i aual iteratioal vocatioal cotests, such as the WorldSkills iteratioal 2007 ( i Japa, where Austria wo two gold, oe silver ad oe broze medal ad 19 awards for excellece. Overall, Austria is raked umber two i Europe, just after Switzerlad. The Höhere Techische Lehrastalt HTL ( is a secodary techical high school system that has eared the respect of the idustry. Studets graduate at the age of 19 ad are frequetly rated equal to uiversity graduates o the basis of their practical skills. Oe of the most esteemed schools for iformatics ad maagemet is Viea s HTL Spegergasse ( with its approximately 1,300 studets. Compaies like Siemes, Philips, Telekom Austria, Kapsch, but also small ad medium-sized ICT compaies literally lie up o graduatio day to employ appretices ad HTL graduates. Viea s leadig schools for academic educatio i iformatics ad ICT are the Viea Uiversity of Techology ( ad Viea Uiversity ( Viea s Uiversity of Ecoomics ad Busiess Admiistratio ( offers studies i busiess iformatics; a umber of uiversities of applied scieces, called Fachhochschule i Germa ( offer a wide variety of special ICT-related subjects. The 2007 World Competitiveess Yearbook raks Austria skilled labor, productivity ad maagemet competece as top i the area of employee motivatio ad corporate traiig ad secod place worldwide overall ( Seite 8

11 VIENNA: THE BASICS Networks & Platforms Networks & Platforms The ICT idustry is oe of the best etworked sectors, ad Viea offers a rich variety of iitiatives ad associatios to foster ad support ICT busiesses, i particular for the more tha 70,000 small ad medium-sized busiesses. VITE, or Viea IT Eterprises ( is a etwork for ICT compaies, etrepreeurs ad research orgaizatios supportig its members i marketig, export, iteratioalizatio, EU projects, legal matters ad a rage of other issues. Several times each year VITE orgaizes presetatios abroad ad has so far visited Belgrade, Brussels, Bucharest, Kiev ad Moscow. The platform was fouded i 2004 by the VBA, or Viea Busiess Agecy ( which is Viea s major fudig ad ivestmet istitutio ad a joit veture of the City of Viea ad the Austria Federal Ecoomic Chamber ( Via its Ceter for Iovatio ad Techology, or ZIT ( the VBA also orgaizes regular ICT-related calls for teders i which compaies ad orgaizatios compete for fudig opportuities. This healthy competitio has helped a growig umber of compaies to develop iovative ad potetially lucrative products ad services ( A VITE delegatio at the Europea Parliamet i Brussels after a presetatio of Viea s ICT research ageda i April I Austria, membership i the Federal Ecoomic Chamber is madatory for every registered compay. The Chamber offers service platforms for each idustry. UBIT ( is the Chamber s ICT associatio, ad the Viea chapter is the biggest i Austria. UBIT is ivolved i issues such as salary egotiatios ad employmet regulatios ad acts as a lobby for its members. Viea is also the home of the Austria Computer Society, or OCG ( with just over 1,000 members. The OCG is a more scietifically-orieted platform, orgaizig atioal ad iteratioal ICT cofereces such as the aual E-Gov Days (e-govermet.adv.at) ad its sister evet i the Czech Republic ( The electroics idustry etworks via its platform FEEI ( Iteret providers lobby ad share kow-how withi the ISPA ( As well, there are a umber of smaller specialized associatios for multimedia, broadbad, mobile commuicatios, gamig ad others, so that each particular iterest ejoys represetatio. Seite 9

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13 EXPORT AND FOREIGN MARKETS Small is Beautiful, Smart ad Highly Iteratioal Small is Beautiful, Smart ad Highly Iteratioal Austria is a small but smart market. Ad Viea s high-tech idustry is clearly orieted to the global market. Most of the major ICT multiatioals located i ad aroud the city also oversee the eighborig coutries, primarily i Cetral ad Easter Europe, but i some cases Germay, Switzerlad or eve all of Europe, the Middle East ad Africa. Siemes ( rus its biggest foreig subsidiary i Viea, which is simultaeously the regioal headquarters for 17 coutries i Cetral ad Easter Europe. It is also the compay s cetral hub for its program ad software developmet divisio PSE. Siemes Austria CEO Brigitte Ederer has bee quoted as sayig, I have daily cotact with colleagues all aroud the world, which is essetial because we pass o kow-how to maage complex projects. This expertise eables them to represet Siemes i a very positive maer. This is also the way we fid solutios for our customers. (Leaders Magazie, July 2008, Leadig global ERP software producer SAP ( rus its etire CEE busiess from Viea. The Viea headquarters also maage the compay s service helpdesk ad several other Europea divisios. Nearly 98% of its productio is destied for export: Philips Austria ( based i Viea, has a log traditio of itroducig ew techologies which the spread across the globe, from VHS VCR, to audio cassette, the CD ad beyod. More recetly, Philips Austria has bee resposible for the compay s speech processig ad RFID semicoductor developmet uits, which have bee meawhile sold to the Viea subsidiaries of NXP semicoductors ( ad Nuace Commuicatios ( NXP Viea has also located its iteratioal headquarters for mobile soud solutios i Viea ad maages the NXP Chia uit from here. Boris Nemsic, CEO Telekom Austria Group Boris Nemsic eared his degree as a electrical egieer at the Sarajevo Techical Uiversity i I 1990 he was awarded a doctorate from the Viea Uiversity of Techology, where he was also employed from 1988 to 1990 as a scietific assistat at the Istitute for Commuicatios ad Radio-Frequecy Egieerig. I 1997 Boris Nemsic was hired by Mobilkom Austria as departmet head for etwork plaig. Today he is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Telekom Austria Group ad of mobilkom austria AG. I 2007, NXP ad Soy fouded Moversa ( a joit veture that will drive global adoptio of cotactless smart card applicatios i mobile phoes usig Near Field Commuicatio (NFC). Moversa is headquartered i Viea. Alcatel Lucet ( i Viea is home to the compay s top techology scouts. Their log term parter Thales ( supplies rail sigalig solutios to may Europea coutries. Sice 2002, Samsug Electroics Austria ( has bee hadlig the markets i Austria, Albaia, Bosia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedoia, Moteegro, Romaia, Serbia, Sloveia ad Switzerlad. T-Systems Austria ( is the iteratioal competece ceter for SAP-based hospital solutios of T-Systems Iteratioal. The divisio called Service Lie Health has developed a fully-itegrated cliical iformatio system, i.s.h.med, together with GSD Berli, which has bee implemeted i more tha 240 locatios worldwide. Scietific Games Iteratioal ( develop lottery software, e-busiess solutios ad fiacial trasactio applicatios for baks, credit card compaies ad clearig houses i Viea for Europe, the Middle East ad Africa. Seite 11

14 EXPORT AND FOREIGN MARKETS Small is Beautiful, Smart ad Highly Iteratioal After buyig IBM s PC busiess, Chiese hardware giat Leovo ( established its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East ad Africa i Viea. Maxbill ( opeed its first office abroad i Viea after wiig the race for real-time olie billig for mobile providers. This competitio was observed very closely as Austria is said to be the toughest market for the cell phoe busiess. Maxbill Viea also supports customers i Wester ad South Easter Europe. Viea s culture district Museumsquartier, home of umerous museums as well as of Quartier 21, a home base for digital culture ad art betwee reality ad virtuality. Back i 1976, Hewlett Packard ( was amog the first ICT multiatioals to acquait itself with Viea s very special advatages. HP curretly has a vice presidet ad several divisios resposible for Easter Europe, the Middle East ad Africa located here. There are coutless other success stories give that more tha a hudred ICT compaies ru their CEE busiess from Viea. Seite 12

15 EXPORT AND FOREIGN MARKETS Activities ad Ivestmets Worldwide Activities ad Ivestmets Worldwide Although Viea s focus is o Cetral ad Easter Europe, its activities ad ifluece rage far beyod Europe. More tha 300 multiatioal ad local compaies export to or ivest i foreig markets worldwide. Viea s biggest ICT exporter is the local Siemes subsidiary ( ad the biggest ivestor i the South Easter Europea regio is the Telekom Austria Group ( with its mobile commuicatios segmet. The compay has developed ito a mid-sized Europea player, havig acquired or built up a rage of mobile phoe compaies i Sloveia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedoia, Bulgaria, Belarus ad Liechtestei. The Telekom Austria Group has aroud 17,000 employees. More tha 2.3 millio fixed lie customers ad 17 millio mobile customers place their trust i its products ad services. The compay also rus a fibre-optic high-speed etwork called JetStream which reaches from Lodo to Sofia. Oe of Viea s oldest telecom compaies, Kapsch AG ( specializes i road pricig solutios ad has equipped more tha 140 road etworks i 30 coutries i Europe, Lati America, Oceaia, the Pacific Rim ad Africa. It is curretly testig systems i the USA. The compay rus subsidiaries i 18 coutries. Smart card ad bakig automatio specialist BGS Smartcard Systems ( is maily active i Cetral ad Southeast Asia ad Idia ad has delivered smart card systems for etire cities i Russia. A wide rage of other compaies ru subsidiaries i or export to umerous destiatios worldwide, like cotrol ceter solutios expert Frequetis ( which is particularly active i Southeast Asia coutries. TTTech ( is oe of the world s most reowed producers of time-triggered systems for the automotive ad aviatio idustries. Altova ( is raked amog the world s top developers of XML applicatios; the USA is the source of most of its turover. S&T AG ( is oe of Austria s biggest system itegrators; its pricipal market exteds from Russia to Romaia, where the compay is the market leader. AT&S AG ( which has commeced productio o its two ew premises i Chia, is Europe s umber oe i prited circuit boards, supplyig, amog others, Nokia ad Caada s smart phoe maufacturer Research i Motio, best kow for the BlackBerry. KeyMile AG ( is curretly developig access solutios for the telecommuicatios idustry ad boasts customers i more tha 100 coutries. Telecoms ifrastructure is also the mai busiess of the Austria brach of Hugaria HTCC, formerly MTC AG, which brought a 12,500 kilometer optical etwork across Cetral ad Easter Europe to the merger, makig HTCC oe of the most importat players i the regio. Seite 13

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17 QUANTUM COMPUTING Worldwide Leadership Quatum Computig: Worldwide Leadership Quatum Physics is pretty heavy stuff eve for isiders. I Viea, Quatum Physics has bee popularized thaks to the activities of the Istitute for Quatum Optics ad Quatum Iformatio, IQOQI ( ad The head of its Viea divisio, Ato Zeiliger, is oe of the world s leadig researchers i the field. IQOQI was co-fouded by the Austria Academy of Scieces ( ad the Uiversity of Viea. I tadem with other istitutes ad eterprises, IQOQI collaborates with the smart systems divisio of Austria s largest research orgaizatio, Austria Research Ceters ARCS, o quatum cryptography ad related issues (for more, go to The reowed Seed Magazie writes: The theory (of Quatum Mechaics) implies that whe we measure particles ad atoms, at least oe of two log-held physical priciples is uteable: Distat evets do ot affect oe other, ad properties we wish to observe exist before our measuremets. Oe of these, locality or realism, must be fudametally icorrect. For more tha 70 years, iumerable physicists have tried to disetagle the meaig of quatum mechaics through debate. Now Zeiliger ad his collaborators have performed a series of experimets that, while eatly agreeig with the theory s predictios, are reivigoratig these historical dialogues. I Viea experimets are testig whether quatum mechaics permits a fudametal physical reality. A ew way of uderstadig a already powerful theory is begiig to take shape, oe that could chage the way we uderstad the world aroud us. This past Jauary (2008), Zeiliger became the first ever recipiet of the Isaac Newto Medal for his pioeerig cotributios to physics as the head of oe of the most successful quatum optics groups i the world. * I October 2008, Siemes IT Solutios ad Services (SIS PSE) i Viea ( ad Austria Research Ceters ARCS preseted the world s first tap-proof commuicatio etwork usig quatum physics withi the Europea SECOQC project ( It is the first commercial applicatio ad the result of may years of outstadig research by Zeiliger s istitute ad may other groups i Europe. Ato Zeiliger, head of the Viea divisio of the Istitute for Quatum Optics ad Quatum Iformatio (IQOQI) of the Austria Academy of Scieces. I the 1970s, Ato Zeiliger started his work o the foudatios of quatum mechaics. Sice the, Zeiliger has performed may experimets with etagled photos, icludig quatum teleportatio, quatum cryptography, alloptical oe-way quatum computatio ad a umber of quatum gates. Thus far, the most importat stages i the career of Ato Zeiliger iclude the Viea Uiversity of Techology, M.I.T., the Techical Uiversity of Muich, the Uiversity of Isbruck, the Collége de Frace, the Uiversity of Viea ad the Austria Academy of Scieces. The visio of SECOQC is to provide Europea citizes, compaies ad istitutios with a tool that allows them to cofrot the threats of future iterceptio techologies, thus creatig sigificat competitive advatages for the Europea ecoomy. SECOQC will provide the basis for log-rage high-security commuicatio i a etwork regime that combies the etirely ovel techology of quatum key distributio with solutios from traditioal computer sciece, etwork desig ad cryptography. The project SECOQC aims at evolvig quatum cryptography ito a istrumet that ca be operated i a commercial eviromet. Seve of the 40 project parters are from Austria, ad five of these are from Viea. *) This is a reprit of part of a article that origially appeared i Seed magazie, Volume 2, Issue 16, Jue Icluded here by permissio. Seite 15

18 SEMICONDUCTORS Naostructures ad Atom Chips Semicoductors: Naostructures ad Atom Chips Austria has a very iterestig semicoductor ladscape ad Viea itself ca boast several highlights i both R&D ad commerce. I additio to the above-metioed NXP Semicoductors ( ODemad Microelectroics ( is aother successful youg eterprise based i Viea s high-tech district Doau City. Fouded i 2003 as a spi-off from Aalog Devices, ODemad Microelectroics is a veture capital-backed fabless semicoductor compay with offices i Palo Alto, Austi, ad Bagalore. The missio of the compay from its iceptio has bee to provide programmable high-performace video ad imagig solutios based o a ovel ad scalable processor architecture. IMS Naofabricatio AG ( is a techology iovator ad provider for aotechology idustries. Thaks to their extesive kow-how i charged particle systems, they ca offer solutios for the direct trasfer of custom desig patters to resist or to geerate resist-less two- ad threedimesioal surface modificatios with features below 10 aometers. IMS has started a joit project with the Viea Uiversity of Techology to develop a ew type of semicoductor productio by creatig ao-stamps as traditioal productio patters which caot be further miiaturized. Jörg Schmiedmayer is workig o revolutioary ew developmets i microstructures which will evetually lead to completely ew computer architectures. The Viea Uiversity of Techology plays a importat role i semicoductor research. Oe example: the Atom Chip Group ( of semicoductor guru Jörg Schmiedmayer, which is workig o revolutioary ew developmets i microstructures which will evetually lead to completely ew computer architectures. Atom chips are microfabricated, itegrated devices i which electric, magetic ad optical fields ca cofie, cotrol ad maipulate cold atoms. Through miiaturizatio, atom chips offer a versatile ew techology for implemetig moder ideas i quatum optics, quatum measuremet ad quatum iformatio processig. Over the last five years, there has bee spectacular progress i preparig ad maipulatig the quatum states of atom clouds o chips. The ext major challege is maipulatig sigle atoms, allowig them to have cotrolled collisios ad couplig them to sigle photos i optical microcavities. This emergig techology will lead to ew quatum devices ad ultimately to quatum iformatio processig o a chip. Seite 16

19 NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION A Techology Developed i Viea Near Field Commuicatio: A Techology Developed i Viea Austria has a remarkable history of pioeerig developmets but also of rapidly adoptig ew techologies. Austria was the first coutry i Europe to have a idepedet, iterbak automatic teller machie system available aroud the clock; oe of the first coutries to itroduce the electroic wallet, mobile paymet, ad commercial UMTS; it tested the first Voice over IP applicatios; ad has itroduced ENUM. Most of these break-through developmets happeed first i Viea, ormally withi the framework of joit projects betwee uiversities ad compaies such as Alcatel, Siemes, Ericsso or Kapsch. Viea was where the music cassette ad the VHS system, the CD ad more recetly, Near Field Commuicatio got their start. >>> Near Field Commuicatio for Mobile Applicatios I September 2007 Mobilkom Austria, Telekom Austria Group s mobile subsidiary, lauched the world s largest ad most comprehesive commercial package of Near Field Commuicatio (NFC) services i Austria i cooperatio with its parters NXP Semicoductors, Nokia, Austria Federal Railways (ÖBB) ad Wieer Liie, Viea s mai public trasportatio operator. NFC, developed i Austria by NXP (formerly Philips Semicoductors) ad Soy, facilitates short-rage commuicatio betwee electroic devices via a fast ad easy wireless coectio. Meawhile ÖBB ad Wieer Liie have itroduced NFC ticketig i daily operatios. Mobile phoe tickets ad SMS tickets were already extremely popular with public trasportatio passegers before NFC. Now, NFC offers customers aother ew ad safe opportuity to purchase public trasport tickets. Passegers hold their mobile phoes to a NFC touchpoit located directly o the platform, the eter the desired destiatio ad sed off the text; secods later, the ticket arrives o the mobile phoe. NFC solutios have ow bee implemeted all aroud Viea for public trasport tickets, food ad beverage vedig machies, lottery games, rigtoes ad railway vouchers ( Break-through NFC developmets have also origiated i the e-health divisio of Austria Research Ceters ARCS: a cell phoe based o touch-free applicatios for the telemoitorig of health data for patiets who are ot able to type i data o a cell phoe keyboard. Data is trasmitted to the cell phoe by movig the phoe close to aother device, for example a blood pressure gauge. This product was awarded the Frost & Sulliva Excellece i Research Award i 2007 ad was preseted at the 2008 ehealth coferece ( NFC ticketig at a Vieese public trasport stop. Seite 17

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21 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Electroic Hearts for Cars, Trais ad Plaes Embedded Systems: Electroic Hearts for Cars, Trais ad Plaes Embedded systems are computig uits for all kids of devices. I Viea, compaies have developed cuttig-edge expertise i areas such as applicatios for the automotive ad aviatio idustries ad i particular i the area of Time-Triggered Protocols, for smart card techologies, RFID tags, wireless home etworks ad much more. Embedded systems have ot oly become a vital segmet i Viea s R&D ladscape but have also bee tured ito viable commercial products. For this reaso, several public orgaizatios have created Embase, a olie database moitorig Austria ad iteratioal compaies ad research orgaizatios developig embedded systems ( A pioeerig compay i the field of embedded systems is Viea-based TTTech, a spi-off of the Viea Uiversity of Techology. TTTech ( produces embedded applicatios for the aviatio ad car maufacturig idustries based o so-called Time-Triggered Protocols, i.e. systems that must work immediately ad reliably, o matter what the circumstaces. Embedded systems are amog the wide rage of publicly-fuded techology developmets supported by Austria s Federal Miistry for Traffic, Iovatio, ad Techology (BMVIT) withi the framework of the FIT IT program ( From 2002 to 2006, the program fiaced 35 projects related to embedded systems developmet; more projects are i the pipelie. Oe of the projects is the Wireless Cargo Moitorig System or WCMS ( ivolvig, amog others, the Viea Uiversity of Techology ad RailCargo Austria, the federal railway s cargo divisio. It has bee dedicated to developig a Iteret-based moitorig system that would geerate its ow eergy supply, measure precisely all kids of movemets ad vibratios, withstad harsh evirometal coditios ad remai reliably olie. Oe of the project parters is Bluetechix ( typical of the large umber of highly iovative ICT SMBs based i Viea. This compay offers a set of tiy core modules for certai special microprocessor families ad outstadig developmet boards for rapid prototypig; these help developers ad system egieers to quickly desig their products. Iteded for prototypes as well as small ad medium volume products, Bluetechix Tiyboards save o developmet costs, reduce risk sigificatly, ad eable icredible performace i a tiy space. Herma Kopetz, fouder of TTTech AG ad professor at the Viea Uiversity of Techology. Herma Kopetz was a maager of a computer process cotrol departmet at Voest Alpie i Liz, Austria, before joiig the Techical Uiversity of Berli as a professor for Computer Process Cotrol i Sice 1982 he has bee professor for Real-Time Systems at the Viea Uiversity of Techology. I 1993 he was offered a positio as Director of the Max Plack Istitute i Saarbrücke, Germay. Durig the last few years, Dr. Kopetz has bee a visitig professor at the Uiversity of Califoria i Irvie ad Sata Barbara. Dr. Kopetz research iterests focus o the itersectio of real-time systems, fault-tolerat systems, ad distributed systems. He is the chief architect of the Time- Triggered Protocol (TTP) for distributed fault-tolerat realtime systems. He is the fouder of TTTech AG, which produces embedded systems for the car ad aviatio idustries; it umbers Audi ad Boeig amog its customers. I additio to OEM modules, Bluetechix offers custom desig services ad developmet assistace. Bluetechix has more tha 400 customers i over 50 coutries o five cotiets. Seite 19

22 RFID Idetificatio ad Logistics, from Covetio to Hospital RFID: Idetificatio ad Logistics, from Covetio to Hospital Radio Frequecy Idetificatio plays a major role i several fields of applicatio, icludig idetificatio ad access, commuicatios ad logistics. The techology is particularly useful whe it comes to large umbers of persos or objects to be idetified. Viea s mai public library has equipped its approx. 1,500,000 books, magazies ad CDs with RFID tags which eable users to hadle ledig ad returig the media themselves. The system prevets theft ad loss ad allows library staff to dedicate themselves to assistig visitors istead of ivetory cotrol. Every day, approximately 12,000 objects are either let or retured ( Viea s mai public library has equipped its approx. 1,500,000 books, magazies ad CDs with RFID tags which eable users to hadle ledig ad returig the media themselves. Viea s Geeral Hospital, the AKH, has upgraded its materials logistics system to RFID cotrol. Each day, aroud 800 cotaiers equipped with weather ad chemical-proof RFID chips automatically distribute food, clothig ad medicatio to various departmets. The tags assist i ivetory cotrol also durig surgery ad eable the moitorig of the highly-sesitive supply chai of blood bags. The system origiated with Siemes ad was developed by the Viea-based SIS PSE divisio, which is resposible for ew Siemes developmets worldwide ( Viea is oe of the world s leadig covetio locatios ad hosts a rage of large gatherigs such as the Europea Radiologists Cogress with about 15,000 participats. Hadlig idetificatio, access ad other types of iformatio such as which visitors visited which workshops is quite a challege, but oe mastered by the two compaies istallig the Auto ID solutio: Webges ( a highly-experieced, iteratioally-recogized coferece solutios provider, ad Datatroic ( a producer of iovative RFID solutios. Research o Auto ID systems is carried out by istitutes of higher learig such as the Istitute of Commuicatios ad Radio-Frequecy Egieerig (INTHFT) at the Viea Uiversity of Techology, oe of the largest departmets of the Faculty of Electrical Egieerig ad Iformatio ( Researchers at the istitute s Christia Doppler Pilot Laboratory for Desig Methodology of Sigal Processig Algorithms came i at secod place at the 2008 EEEfCOM (Electrical ad Electroic Egieerig for Commuicatio) Iovatio Award i Berli for their ew uiversal RFID test system. For the first time ever, this system eables testers to compare all RFID stadards idepedet of their techological backgroud ( Seite 20

23 MOBILE TELEPHONY & COMPUTING Europe s Champio i Wireless 3 rd Geeratio Iteret Mobile Telephoy & Computig: Europe s Champio i Wireless 3 rd Geeratio Iteret Mobile computig is a cosumer-drive idustry, ad the Vieese have already itegrated a wide rage of mobile offerigs ito their daily lives. A SIM card peetratio rate of 120% offers providers ideal opportuities to expad their services. While fixed lie telephoy is stagatig ad wired broadbad access is growig at a slower rate tha i Demark or Switzerlad, Austria, ad i particular Viea, is Europe s leader i wireless thirdgeeratio Iteret. Thirty percet of all broadbad Iteret coectios are wireless, versus 6% i Switzerlad ad 2% i Germay. The boom has bee caused by Europe s fiercest competitio o tariffs, which has resulted i oe of the lowest price levels i Europe but also i the rapid itroductio of ew services. Some global telecoms such as Nokia ad Alcatel cosider Viea to be the ideal test market ad/or battlegroud, as do other specialists, such as those active i real-time olie billig. Thus both mobile telephoy ad mobile broadbad Iteret have become part of Viea s attractive ifrastructure for cosumers as well as for busiesses. Today, the Vieese use cell phoes for bookig tram ad trai tickets, payig parkig meters, buyig driks, payig taxi fares ad fidig their way aroud thaks to avigatio systems. They also use their cell phoes for olie games ad digital home cotrol features for heatig or surveillace. Compaies are tradig i their fixed lie switchboards for mobile alteratives ad are usig mobile Voice over IP solutios for commuicatio with their offices abroad. Near Field Commuicatio has itroduced additioal optios, icludig a growig rage of idustrial logistics applicatios as well as mobile e-health diagostics. Most of Viea s home care orgaizatios have switched from hadwritte documetatio to smart phoe solutios which combie field service applicatios with mobile e-healthcare. Ad ever sice the Europea Soccer Champioships took place i Austria ad Switzerlad i Jue 2008, mobile TV has bee available. Mobile commuicatio has also become crucial for public safety: startig i 2004, Alcatel Lucet Austria ( ad Motorola ( have bee successively implemetig a uified atioal truked radio etwork for all public safety ad emergecy orgaizatios called Digitalfuk BOS-Austria. The system is maaged by a joit veture of the two compaies called Tetro ( It is based o the TETRA stadard ad is the most advaced digital emergecy etwork i Europe. Its most challegig task so far ivolved the Europea Soccer Champioships i Jue Most of the products ad services i use were developed i Austria. Telekom Austria ad other providers have their ow i-house research divisios ad cooperate closely with major global telecoms such as Nokia ( Alcatel Lucet or Kapsch ( but also with ew start ups such as Symea ( a compay producig software for itelliget ateas which track the icreasig desity of mobile commuicatio. The Viea Uiversity of Techology ( the telecom research ceter FTW ( ad Austria Research Ceters ARCS ( have played ad cotiue to play a major role i Austria s mobile commuicatios boom ad have bee the maisprig of several developmets that have had their premiere i Viea, such as UMTS, NFC ad Voice over IP. Seite 21

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25 SEMANTIC SYSTEMS Whe Letters Become Words Sematic Systems: Whe Letters Become Words Sematic techologies have gaied i importace i tadem with the growig relevace of search machies as well as all other applicatios dealig with the uderstadig of cotexts ( olie market itelligece ). Viea is the ceter for umerous activities i Austria ad beyod: Viea hosts the STI Iteratioal ( a sematic techologies etwork closely cooperatig with the Uiversity of Isbruck ( a leadig istitute i the wider field, ad aroud 30 uiversities, research istitutes ad compaies worldwide. STI Iteratioal s area coordiator Dr. Rudi Studer (AIFB, Uiversity of Karlsruhe), explais STI Iteratioal as follows: The mai objective of STI Iteratioal is to advace the defiitio, developmet ad outreach of scietific foudatios as well as methods ad tools required for the takeup of sematic techologies at corporate ad public level. As a orgaizatio which brigs together a critical mass of leadig istitutios i the Sematic Techology field, STI Iteratioal provides the ideal eviromet for exploitig the syergies betwee idividual research iitiatives across the world, thus esurig further achievemets ad their trasfer to idustry. Overall, STI Iteratioal will shape the ladscape for research i sematic techologies. Oe of the mai projects of STI Iteratioal is the Stadardizatio & Referece Architecture Service, which coordiates the joit stadardizatio strategy for STI Iteratioal s research efforts ad the developmet of referece architectures for sematic techologies. The aim is to stregthe the impact of STI Iteratioal research by fosterig the admissio by ackowledged stadardizatio bodies, ad to support the software developmet i associated research projects by providig ope ad geeric referece architectures for sematic techologies. Commercial exploitatio of sematic techologies is already takig place i compaies such as Lixto a spi-off compay of Viea Uiversity of Techology ( Prolytic ( a spi-off of Viea s Uiversity of Ecoomics; Matrixware ( workig o eablig sematic search for patet literature; UMA ( which is developig special search solutios for idividual cliets; ad the Sematic Web Compay ( which is also ruig the Sematic Web School, a recetly-fouded istitute that has already made a ame for itself. Oe of their parters is pukt.et Services ( a developer of a cotet maagemet system based o sematic techologies. Georg Gottlob is Chairma of the Scietific Advisory Board of Lixto GmbH. Georg Gottlob, curretly Adjuct Professor of Computer Sciece at Viea Uiversity of Techology ad Professor of Computer Sciece at Oxford Uiversity, has bee a guest speaker at may iteratioal cofereces. He received the Wittgestei Award from the Austria Natioal Sciece Fud, was elected Member of the Austria Academy of Scieces, is holder of a Royal Society Research Merit Award ad Fellow of the ACM. He chaired the Program Committees of ACM PODS 2000 (ACM Coferece o Priciples of Database Systems) ad of IJCAI 2003 (Iteratioal Joit Coferece o Artificial Itelligece). He is a co-fouder of Lixto. Projects developig sematic systems are also supported by the FIT IT fudig program ( iitiated by Austria s Federal Miistry for Traffic, Iovatio, ad Techology (BMVIT). Seite 23

26 SPEECH PROCESSING How Viea Makes Machies Smarter Speech Processig: How Viea Makes Machies Smarter Laguage is essetial to the character of Viea. The city s atives speak a rich ad distictive local dialect, yet the metropolis is home to some of the most reowed theaters ad stages i the Germa-speakig realm where Hochdeutsch, or High Germa, is spoke. This ambiguous biligualism is a edless source of creativity i the city. Thus it is fittig that speech recogitio ad processig have become keywords i Philips Viea s log traditio of applicatio developmet, as well as at Alcatel; both divisios have ow bee outsourced to subsidiaries of Nuace ad Soorys ( ad Oe of Europe s most outstadig SMEs i this field is the Viea-based Sail Labs ( a member of Viea s speech processig cluster COAST ( Sail Labs produce high-ed speech recogitio products that ca amog other thigs automate the process of idexig live ews feeds ad multimedia archives i real time. COAST has ie members, icludig audio cotet processor ad aalyzer NOA Audio Solutios ( ad Viea s reowed Austria Research Istitute for Artificial Itelligece, or OFAI ( Alog with its Laguage Techology Group, the OFAI is a member of the Europea Network of Excellece i Huma Laguage Techologies (ELSNET) ; see page 27 for more o OFAI. Visitig Viea ad takig a horse-draw carriage ride ( Fiaker ) allows you to experiece first had the charm of Viea s local dialect. Viea s reowed research ceter FTW has developed recogitio algorithms for dialectal varieties to make them available for speech processig. The COAST cluster is curretly workig o eight projects, most of which attempt to elimiate some curret deficiecies of speech recogitio ad processig programs (such as i the writte trascriptio of verbal laguage aspects icludig shorteed seteces, idividual attributes etc.), improve hadlig of backgroud oise, maagemet of structured data iput from verbal sources, ad more. Voice Busiess ( develops speech-cotrolled dialogue systems for telephoe commuicatio. Research o speech processig is also oe of the mai subjects of Viea s telecommuicatios research istitute FTW ( Oe of the most remarkable recet projects has bee the automated recogitio of dialectal aspects of Austria Germa. Seite 24

27 COMPUTER VISION From Earth Observatio to Dopig Tests Computer Visio: From Earth Observatio to Dopig Tests Durig recet years the processig of visual cotet has become oe of the city s strogest research subjects. The Viea Uiversity of Techology, Austria Research Ceters ARCS, the Austria Academy of Scieces, the Ceter for Virtual Reality ad Visualizatio (VRVis) ad other research orgaizatios i collaboratio with a large umber of compaies have developed a impressive portfolio of research projects ad products. A overview would iclude the followig: Collaboratig with the Istitute for Computer Graphics ad Algorithms at the Viea Uiversity of Techology ( ad the Academy of Scieces ( the Ceter for Virtual Reality ad Visualizatio, or VRVis, ( has eared iteratioal acclaim as the socalled Viea Group. Today, they are Europe s secod largest research group for computer graphics.they have collaborated with, amog others, the Viea divisio of Philips Medical Systems ( Tiai Spirit ( a compay specializig i digital radiography; ad with Microsoft ad its Virtual Earth program together with Austria photogrammetry specialist Vexcel ( Gepard ( was fouded i 1988 i Viea as a team of experts uited to carry out research o ad develop sophisticated methods ad computer systems for earth observatio ad meteorology, idustrial visio systems ad simulatio. They produce the award-wiig CieSat MSG visualizatio solutio for the ew geeratio of Meteosat weather satellites. ArtiBrai, recetly acquired by Kapsch, is a specialist for itelliget tuel surveillace applicatios ( The ICT divisio of the Austria Research Ceters ARCS ( smart systems are iteratioally kow i the domai of high performace image processig, i particular i the area of optical quality cotrol for security pritig, e.g. for bakotes. I order to process the resultig data rates withi the rage of gigabytes per secod, proprietary camera systems, ew image processig algorithms ad optimally coordiated computer hardware systems have bee developed. ARCS have also developed a iteratioally recogized method for the optical aalysis of dopig tests i sports ( Gepard: Polar-stereographic projectio of the Europea regio; IR (ifra-red) cloud image together with a lad/sea backgroud, geographical et ad the major Europea cities draw as overlay. Seite 25

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29 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Vieese Ladmark Artificial Itelligece: A Vieese Ladmark Artifical Itelligece has a log traditio i Viea. The Austria Research Istitute for Artificial Itelligece or OFAI ( is oe of Europe s leadig o-profit cotract research istitutios. It collaborates with more tha 100 parters, iteratioal ad atioal orgaizatios, compaies, uiversities ad research istitutes from 28 coutries. I solvig the problems of its parters, OFAI uses methods such as machie learig ad data miig, laguage ad speech techology, eural etworks, itelliget software agets ad other software techologies, with may of the uderlyig methods developed i-house. Laguage techology has costituted a major research area at the OFAI sice its iceptio i The istitute coducts research i the modelig ad processig of huma laguages, particularly Germa. This icludes costructig liguistic resources (such as lexica, grammars, discourse models), processig algorithms (morphological compoets, parsers, geerators, speech sythesizers, discourse processig compoets), ad applicatio prototypes (such as atural laguage iterfaces, advisory systems ad coceptto-speech systems). Artificial Itelligece also plays a role i the arts. The rapidly growig amout of music available i digital form via the Iteret or digital libraries calls for etirely ew computer-based methods for aalyzig, describig, distributig, ad presetig music. The curretly-emergig research ad applicatio field kow as Music Iformatio Retrieval (MIR) is a direct respose to this eed. OFAI has thus iitiated a project this is Viea, after all o this subject ad has developed software which fids sogs based o specific criteria, for example accordig to gere (jazz, blues, hip-hop etc.). Audio files are aalyzed by rhythm, souds or pitch i aroud 1.5 secods ad filed accordigly. Radio statios use the aget for recommedatios or for the compilatio of gerespecific programs. Radio listeers also beefit from this techology: FM4 Soudpark ( is a Iteret platform ru by the Austria public radio statio FM4. Artists ca upload ad preset their music free of charge, ad visitors to the website ca liste to ad dowload all the tracks at o cost. FM4 Soudpark attracts a large commuity iterested i up-adcomig music. Robert Trappl is head of the Austria Research Istitute for Artificial Itelligece (OFAI) i Viea, which was fouded i He is professor of Medical Cyberetics ad Artificial Itelligece at the Istitute of Medical Cyberetics ad Artificial Itelligece, Ceter for Brai Research, Medical Uiversity of Viea, Austria. He holds a PhD i psychology (mior: astroomy), a diploma i sociology (Istitute for Advaced Studies, Viea), ad a degree i electrical egieerig. He has published more tha 180 articles. His mai research focus at preset is the ivestigatio of the potetial cotributios of Artificial Itelligece methods to the avoidace of outbreaks of wars or i edig them, ad the developmet of itelliget ad emotioal persoality agets for sythetic actors i films, televisio ad iteractive media (especially games), with a view to their cosequeces for theories o cogitio ad emotio. I recet years he has give lectures i may coutries ad has worked as a cosultat for atioal ad iteratioal compaies ad orgaizatios, icludig the OECD, UNIDO ad WHO. Seite 27

30 METROLOGY/SENSORICS Computig At Its Best Metrology/Sesorics, Simulatio, Optimizatio ad Forecastig These are highly complex, abstract ad scietific subjects, yet they are essetial for may idustries ad offer a wide rage of applicatios. Simulatio helps save both time ad moey ad, i some cases, lives. Optimizatio helps to improve developmet ad productio. The four disciplies are closely coected ad have a strog mathematical ad egieerig foudatio. Viea has a excellet reputatio i mathematics research. Thaks to the growig complexity of algorithms, electroic forecastig systems ow boast high levels of precisio. Compaies such as pro:kos ( with customers i Germay, Austria ad Switzerlad, offer solutios for electios, fiacial markets, sports bettig ad other applicatios. Eergy markets are the focus of Viea-based IRM ( a compay specialized i solutios specifically tailored to the requiremets of deregulated markets. The solutios rage from structured procuremet maagemet (forecast, eergy dispositio, from simple registratio ad hadlig of a icreasig umber of procuremet flows icludig schedulig ad balacig group maagemet); to eergy tradig with portfolio/risk maagemet (icludig complex risk ad optimizatio fuctioalities) i the multicommodity eviromet as well as i ivestmet aalysis ad plaig. IRM is a leadig solutio provider i Europe with more tha 40 referece cliets i 16 coutries ad a staff of over 70. Aother highlight i the field of complex applicatios is Hakom ( A market leader i certai segmets of eergy data maagemet i Austria, Hakom s share of the market is growig steadily i Germay ad the emergig markets. Their solutios support the maagemet of sesor data, forecastig systems, portfolio maagemet, risk maagemet ad public trasport schedulig portals. Adco Telemetry ( is specialized i telemetric solutios for agriculture ad the eviromet. Its telemetric solutios are based o a proprietary ultra-low power radio techology ad GSM/GPRS modems, both itegrated ito their ow rage of loggers. What makes the Adco solutio uique is a rage of urivalled product features. These have made Adco the market leader, i particular for agricultural applicatios. There are several platforms that support collaborative research ad etworkig: ARGE Sesorik ( a platform for sesor research i Austria whose lead parter is the Istitute of Sesor ad Actuator Systems at Viea Uiversity of Techology ( ad ARGESIM, a oprofit workig group providig the ifrastructure ad admiistratio for dissemiatio of iformatio o modelig ad simulatio i Europe. ARGESIM is located at the Viea Uiversity of Techology, Departmet of Simulatio ( Seite 28

31 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS Showig the Way i Europe Geographic Iformatio Systems: Showig the Way i Europe May of Viea s moder success stories actually have a log ad rich history, albeit i differet form; witess the boom of electroic music, digital arts ad e-tourism. Aother case i poit is cartography. Viea has log bee fertile groud for this disciplie, ad the ew field of geographic iformatio systems cotiues the traditio. The Viea city admiistratio offers GIS services for its ow purposes as well as for busiesses ad the geeral public. The digitalizatio of maps commeced i the 1970s i order to facilitate regioal aalyses. Viea s GIS activities really took off i the mid-1990s with the itroductio of the World Wide Web. Today, VieaGIS ( offers a multitude of services: iteractive maps for the PC or PDA (icludig a photo versio with details dow to 15 cm); lad registry iformatio for commual ad private buildig projects, caalizatio projects, eergy etworks; the mappig of costructio sites, car park pools, medical services etworks, bike routes; traffic iformatio; emergecy services-related iformatio for the city; ad eve the graphic display of cultural ad historic highlights. As of 2009, the service will also icorporate evirometal data. The system has aroud 35,000 users withi the City admiistratio ad approximately 200,000 visits per day at its website. Muicipal data ca be purchased via the VieaGIS - GeoShop which is ru by City admiistratio. Oe of the umerous offerigs of VieaGIS : A map o art i public spaces, i.e. moumets etc. Viea s pre-emiece i the field of cartography has made the city a focal poit for iteratioal projects, particularly i cojuctio with the Cetral ad Easter Europea coutries; 1989 saw a resurgece of demad for ew maps, catastral iformatio ad spatial plaig. The Viea Uiversity of Techology ( the Uiversity of Viea ( ad federal orgaizatios based i Viea such as the Austria Istitute for Spatial Plaig, or OIR ( respoded with umerous projects. ÖROK Atlas ( is a joit project of the Istitute for Cartography of the Uiversity of Viea ad ÖROK ( the Austria Coferece o Spatial Plaig. The project promises a wide variety of special iteractive mappig services for agriculture, hydrology, ecology, urba developmet, migratio ad tourism as well as may other applicatios. May projects are ru i public private parterships (PPP) with compaies such as Syergis ( which is active across Europe; ad Geologic ( which combies geographic data with fuzzy logic; ad aroud 20 other compaies i Viea. The extremely high quality of life ejoyed i Austria ad Viea ca be attributed i part to the striget regulatio of drikig water, air quality, food ad the eviromet i geeral. These stadards are set by the Umweltbudesamt ( the expert authority of the federal govermet for evirometal protectio ad cotrol. Its activities are supported by a multitude of GIS applicatios ( The miistry acted as coordiator for the EU Water Framework Directive project. As a expert body, it is frequetly cosulted by Europea ad iteratioal istitutios such as the Europea Eviromet Agecy. The source of most of Austria s geographic ad photogrammetric data is the BEV ( a state office for surveyig ad mappig ad oe of the oldest istitutios of its kid i the world. Amog may other services it coordiates the Austria Positioig Service (APOS) by processig GPS data for various applicatios. Seite 29

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33 TRAFFIC TELEMATICS & ROAD PRICING Market Leaders Traffic Telematics & Road Pricig: Market Leaders Austria has made quite a ame for itself i the fields of traffic telematics ad road pricig, especially after Viea-based Kapsch TrafficCom AG ( wo several atioal ad iteratioal teders for road pricig projects from Irelad to Australia. Kapsch also develops iovative tuel surveillace systems, ivests i vehicle detectio ad classificatio, highway cotrol ad digital railway commuicatio. Siemes Austria ( has gaied extesive experiece i advaced traffic telematics ad equips cities with traffic cotrol systems, as it did for example i Prague i Siemes IT Solutios ad Services ad Mobilkom Austria ( have developed oe of Europe s first m-parkig systems for Viea. Drivers book ad pay their parkig slots via mobile phoe. The system has ow bee implemeted i eight cities across Austria ( The scietific backgroud for itelliget surveillace also comes from Viea. Austria Research Ceters ARCS is a leader i iteratioal research i the field of computer visio ( Their smart eye divisio is dedicated to developig ad improvig embedded multilae traffic data acquisitio ad algorithms for vehicle speed estimatio with a ear-zero failure rate. After a call for teders issued by the Viea Sciece ad Techology Fud, or WWTF ( Viea s telecom research orgaizatio FTW ( has wo the cotract for developig efficiet real-time mobile iformatio systems. They will be workig joitly with the Istitute for Aalysis ad Scietific Computig at the Viea Uiversity of Techology ( Georg Kapsch is CEO of Kapsch AG, a telecommuicatios ad traffic telematics compay, ad board member of several ICT-related associatios. The Kapsch Group is a pioeer i telecommuicatios applicatios ad traffic telematics. Like may Austria compaies, the Kapsch Group does a sigificat portio of its busiess abroad i Cetral ad Easter Europe ad i 46 coutries aroud the world. Thaks to such pioeerig developmets, Austria s highway moitorig ad cotrol ceter is oe of the most advaced i Europe. The ceter is ru by ASFINAG ( the state-owed road admiistratio departmet headquartered i Viea. ATTC, the Austria Traffic Telematics Cluster ( is a project platform for larger eterprises icludig Frequetis ( world market leader i air traffic cotrol but also the maker of commuicatio ad iformatio systems for public trasport ad maritime commuicatio. To improve cooperatio, etworks for smaller compaies have bee established, such as ANTTS ( Oe etwork member is Smartspector ( specialists i artificial perceptio egieerig, ad Prisma Solutios ( who focus o traffic data pools. Curretly Prisma is collaboratig with umerous importat parters from the idustry o a project called ITS Viea Regio, or Itelliget Trasport System ( The aim of this traffic data collectio project is to itegrate data from a variety of sources to form a itermodal data pool: public trasportatio, passeger vehicles, bicycles ad pedestrias, but also road costructio sites, car floatig maagemet ad other features. There is also a joit platform for Viea ad eighborig twi city Bratislava. As of 2009 the data pool ad all its related services will be accessible olie. The City of Viea publishes its traffic maagemet iformatio o icludig the real-time public trasport iformatio system RBL, which displays arrival times for Viea s five udergroud lies, 31 tram lies ad 80 bus lies. Viea has bee hostig the illustrious aual coferece Urba Plaig ad Regioal Developmet i the Iformatio Society, or CORP ( I 2009, the coferece moves to Sitges, Spai, for the first time. Seite 31

34 E-GOVERNMENT & E-HEALTH Number Oe i Europe E-Govermet & E-Health: Number Oe i Europe Austria is Europe s leader i e-govermet solutios, with applicatios beig implemeted by commuities ad cities, by provicial admiistratios ad by federal authorities. E-govermet ivolves the digitalizatio of data ad files withi the admiistratio as well as all forms of commuicatio ad trasactios amog citizes, busiesses ad the authorities. The portal help.gv.at ( ru by the Austria Federal Chacellery collects ad classifies data. Help.gv.at features more tha 120 categories; the City of Viea s service catalogue cotais 46 categories such as emergecy services, tax iformatio, evirometal moitorig, ad healthcare. For more, go to or cosult the comprehesive olie help desk at To view the resposible persos or offices for projects curretly i the pipelie, go to The Austria Federal Computig Ceter, called BRZ i Germa ( is the leadig source for itra-admiistratioal e-govermet solutios. Headquartered i Viea ad employig a staff of aroud 1,200, it supports over 30,000 civil servats i the federal admiistratio ad other govermetal offices ad hosts a overall data volume of aroud 500 terabyte. The City of Viea s Muicipal Departmet 14 Automated Electroic Data Processig, Iformatio ad Commuicatios Techologies ( eglish/edp) rus oe of Europe s largest etworks, providig the ICT ifrastructure for over 35,000 employees ad all electroic services for the Vieese populatio. The list of compaies i Viea supplyig techology for federal ad muicipal applicatios is log ad icludes iteratioal corporatios such as IBM ( Microsoft ( Hewlett Packard ( Cisco ( ad Uisys ( as well as may iovative local developers such as Fabasoft ( Austria s most successful solutio provider for e-govermet, ad IT solutio ( the compay which liceses their e-sigature software to the Austria govermet. Awards ad award ceremoies are ot oly good for publicity, but are also a meas of promotig strategies o a broader scale. Thus they play a importat part i Austria s lively e-govermet scee. For example, i 2006 the Viea subsidiary of Uisys was awarded the Amtsmaager or Public Office Maager of the year for public maagemet by the Austria Federal Ecoomic Chamber ( Uisys was raked first i the category of traffic maagemet for offerig a solutio for hadlig the over 12,000 applicatios submitted aually for costructio sites o or close to Viea streets. Such applicatios must ormally be screeed i a time-itesive maer by umerous departmets- from utilities to waste treatmet, traffic cotrol ad others prior to approval. Uisys solutio ecompasses all required iformatio for rapid muicipal approval of projects as well as cosideratio of other parameters such as hadlig of trasactio fees. I 2008, the atioal e-govermet prize ( was awarded to Viea s Raiffeise Iformatik ( a data ceter ad service provider for baks, large corporatios ad public authorities. Raiffeise Iformatik wo for their dual delivery project ivolvig official letters from public authorities to citizes ad busiesses. Util recetly, receipt of such letters had to be ackowledged i writig by the recipiet. Seite 32

35 Now, however, the govermet is evaluatig the award-wiig system with the aim of implemetig it i order to elimiate the ecessity of actual physical delivery of correspodece i the future. I a coutry where health services are basically public services, e-health is a public issue as well. Like the closely affiliated e-govermet sector, e-health was take up early i Viea. The city is home to aroud a fifth of Austria s total populatio ad thus has a large umber of cliics ad hospitals ad the highest desity of medical practitioers ad specialists i the coutry. Although all imagiable kids of health services are offered here, Viea is at the fore i the treatmet of cacer ad heart disease but also provides cuttig-edge techologies i the areas of digital radiology ad brai-computer iterface solutios. Aside from the techology ad treatmet aspects of medicie, e-health also has a less glamorous admiistrative side ivolvig extesive paperwork for hospitals, doctors ad patiets. Austria was the first coutry i Europe to itroduce a persoalized digital ID card for all citizes: the so-called e-card ( ca be equipped with vacciatio records ad upgraded to full e-sigature card fuctioalities. It replaces the traditioal paper-based exchage of iformatio betwee patiets, practitioers ad hospitals. The card ad its implemetal ifrastructure (etworks, physicia s IT equipmet etc.) was developed by Viea-based SVC ( ad supported by IBM, Siemes, Telekom Austria ad other compaies. A related project is ELGA ( a electroic health filig system that will combie all paperbased records of a patiet that have previously circulated amog geeral practitioers, cliics ad authorities such as health isurace orgaizatios. It will eve reclaim records which were thought to have bee lost. ELGA is a joit veture amog several orgaizatios ad compaies workig o the techical ad political ramificatios of this project. E-health related techologies developed i Viea iclude comprehesive digital hospital projects: for example AME Iteratioal, with offices i the UK, South Africa, Chia, the Uited Arab Emirates ad Malaysia ( boasts a impressive list of referece projects. Hardware solutios are offered by Philips Medical ( ad Siemes Medical Solutios ( digital x-ray storage by Agfa Healthcare s Viea developmet labs, which have cotributed to Agfa s worldwide leadership i PACS (Picture Archivig ad Commuicatio Systems) applicatios ( I 2007, Otto Bock Healthcare Viea ( preseted as a world premiere the first mid-cotrolled arm prosthesis. The project was carried out i close collaboratio with Viea s Geeral Hospital (AKH), a facility which is iteratioally-reowed i the areas of euromuscular recostructio, amog others; ad with the Medical Uiversity of Viea. Otto Bock s Viea subsidiary (the paret compay is based i Germay) is the corporate competece ceter for complex applicatios i medical techologies.the AKH ad the Medical Uiversity of Viea operate dedicated departmets for medical ICT research comprisig istitutes for cliical biometrics, medical statistics, biomedical computer simulatio ad bio iformatics, medical picture processig ad patter recogitio, as well as two departmets for kowledge maagemet ad expert systems ( I additio, the Medical Uiversity rus two special research groups called Molecular Techology Network ad Molecular Imagig Network. The world s first fully thoughtcotrolled prosthesis by Otto Bock Viea, Viea s Geeral Hospital ad the Medical Uiversity of Viea. Seite 33

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37 DIGITAL CULTURE From Heritage to Future Digital Culture: From Heritage to Future Viea is oe of Europe s leadig cultural capitals with a rich, early uparalleled cultural heritage ad eormous creative potetial. These assets have fostered the developmet of a vibrat ad boomig artistic digerati scee which has garered artistic acclaim but also experieced commercial success. Some movemets have bee ispired by the traditioal arts, such as the award-wiig Viea Symphoic Library ( the most comprehesive ad techically advaced sample library of orchestral souds worldwide. A rich multimedia scee is the cradle for may related activities ad creatios that are ot ecessarily part of ICT s core eterprise; electroic music is oe of these importat outgrowths of the idustry, ad Viea is oe of the world s hot spots for electroica. A aoymous author posted this accout at Oe day back i 1991, music programmer Klaus Filip itroduced his ew music productio tool Iloop to his fried Christoph Kurzma, who istalled it o his laptop to use it as a completely ew voice i improvisatioal music. While the rest of the world succumbed to gruge rock, Viea celebrated the birth of a ew music gere: electroic music, or to be more precise: a special kid of electro-acoustic improvisatio. Ad because Kurzma was the first to do this, I declare this Viea s gift to the world. The most famous represetatives of Viea s electroic music scee are certaily Kruder&Dorfmeister ( who have cotributed immeasurably to the popularity of this gere across the globe. Today, Viea is home to a large umber of producers ad labels. Johaa Rachiger has bee Director Geeral of the Austria Natioal Library i Viea sice 2001 ad is, amog other positios, deputy chairwoma of the Austria Sciece Coucil. Uder her leadership the digitalizatio of the library s catalogue was completed; the catalogue presetly cotais more tha six millio etries, all of which ca be located via olie search. I 2006, the library commeced the digitalizatio of aalogue audio documets. The Austria Natioal Library is oe of the few major libraries worldwide with a fully-digitalized olie catalogue. A perfect example of the merge betwee Viea s historic creative traditio ad its moder form of expressio ad the way this fusio is embedded i the city s daily life is the Essl family, owers of the well-kow do-it-yourself retail chai BauMax. While the father ad oe of the sos ru a celebrated moder art museum located just outside of Viea, aother so, Karlheiz Essl Jr. ( is oe of Viea s busiest composers ad performers of e-music. He teaches electro-acoustic ad experimetal music at Viea s acclaimed Uiversity of Music ad Performig Arts Viea ( which boasts alumi legeds such as Herbert vo Karaja ad Zubi Mehta. Streetforward ( a youg start up, recogized the tred early o ad focused o electroic music from the begiig. They produce customized CDs whose cotet users ca preview ad select olie; corporate idetity elemets may be itegrated i the cover ad other parts. May platforms such as techoboard ( are dedicated to electroic music, which forms the backgroud for may evets ad festivals. The et culture lab ( is a platform ad weblog sposored by Telekom Austria ( offerig iformatio o electroic music, creative workshops, IT support for artists, itellectual property rights ad more. Metalab ( sposored i part by the City of Viea, is a creative space ope to ayoe ivolved i orgaizig evets directed to computer gurus but is also active i the plaig ad carryig out of a large umber of iovative projects located betwee the realms of ICT ad culture. Seite 35

38 DIGITAL CULTURE From Heritage to Future May of these platforms ad orgaizatios are coordiated by the Quartier für Digitale Kultur ( a umbrella istitutio which orgaizes regular evets ad cofereces. It is located i Viea s ew cultural district, the MQ or Museumsquartier ( FM4 ( the atioal alterative radio statio based i Viea, offers creative people a iterestig lik betwee the arts ad hardcore iformatics o their Soudpark website ( Listeers ca upload their ow music or ay music of their choice. Artificial Itelligece created by Viea s OFAI ( sorts ad categorizes the sogs accordig to musical features recogized by a software (see also Artificial Itelligece o page 27). >>> The Viea Symphoic Library The Viea Symphoic Library (VSL) is a producer of samples of orchestral istrumets reowed for their verisimilitude ad high quality. They are recorded by members of the Viea Philharmoic ( For recordig the samples, VSL uses the Silet Stage, a recordig studio especially costructed for this purpose. The umber of recorded samples is curretly aroud 1.75 millio. The outstadig features of VSL s products are true legato ad repetitio articulatios, which were previously impossible to realize i computer-based compositios. The library is a source for composers ad producers creatig orchestral arragemets o the computer. New offerigs such as the Horizo Series combie the musical traditios of Viea with itelliget high-ed techology that surpasses the limitatios of covetioal orchestral sample libraries by far. The mixig ad host software, Viea Esemble 3, is the first MIDI ad audio LAN solutio that sports a etwork optio that ca coect PCs ad Macs by a simple Etheret cable. MIDI ad audio data ca be set back ad forth without ay additioal audio hardware, i syc ad without ay latecy issues a flawless software solutio that has tured the idustry s collective head. Multimedia applicatios offer a wide rage of solutios. Audite ( specialized i iteractive audio ad visual istallatios, has recetly begu a collaboratio with Staford Uiversity. Audite s offsprig Iteractive Media Solutios ( has successfully developed award-wiig iteractive projectios ad couts UEFA, The Coca-Cola Compay, T-Mobile, Swiss Post ad more amog their customers. As they do i the world of music, digital applicatios play a vital role i the preservatio of kowledge ad wisdom.the digitalizatio of our cultural heritage is a importat task i a city that hosts iumerable archives, libraries, galleries ad music collectios. Austria s Digital Heritage ( a website sposored by the Federal Miistry for Educatio, Culture ad Arts, offers a excellet overview o digitalizatio projects i Austria, such as at the Austria Natioal Library ( with its eight millio books, magazies, digital media, etc.; ad the Viea Uiversity Library ( with 6.6 millio books. Both collectios date back to the 14th cetury. O a separate website, the Austria Natioal Library has compiled its eormous collectio of pictures, graphics ad photos i the Bildarchiv ( Other major projects iclude The Austria Natioal Archive ( ad the Documetatio Cetre of Austria Resistace or DÖW ( a istitutio ivestigatig amog other topics the Austria resistace movemet, Nazi crimes ad right-wig extremism. Seite 36

39 The Medie Archive Austria, or MAA ( is a shared veture brigig together various audiovisual media archives i Austria; all participatig istitutios are located i Viea. Like citizes of other cities aroud the globe, Viea s creative mids started to use digital media a few years ago to re-discover ad assess their city by way of iteractive maps, 3D views ad avigatioal applicatios based o GIS (Geographic Iformatio Systems). Oe of the most excitig projects has bee The Josefsplatz Experiece by the Viea Istitute for Virtual Reality ad Visualizatio, or VRVis ( The Josefsplatz is oe of the most impressive squares i Viea s historic ceter, domiated by the huge baroque State Hall of the Austria Natioal Library. The goal of the project was to recostruct a complex 3D model of a urba eviromet from historical pictures ad paitigs ad preset this 4D iformatio space (3D geometry over time) o mobile devices to a broad audiece. It icludes a user-adaptive meta-iformatio system that eables the visualizatio of complex, iterliked historic evets. A special focus was set o the differet qualities of historical iformatio. The Josefsplatz Experiece is oe of the projects co-fuded by Viea s Sciece & Techology Fud, WWTF ( Wie Kulturgut ( is the ew ad very comprehesive web-based archive ad multimedia library of Viea s cultural heritage. The applicatio, called VieaGIS Web Framework, is a brad ew ad iteratioally competitive developmet iitiated by the City of Viea s Muicipal Departmet 14 Automated Electroic Data Processig, Iformatio ud Commuicatios Techologies. It has a strog emphasis o usability. Oe of the most compellig ad complex fields of digital creatio is the rapidly expadig sector of digital games. Origially, this domai appeared to be firmly uder the cotrol of America ad Far East producers. But i the meatime, Viea has produced a remarkable umber of iteratioally successful game studios, evideced by the sale of the former NEO software to Rockstar, a divisio of US game producer Electroic Arts (EA), ad employig aroud a hudred desigers. Whe EA closed their Europea operatios, the Viea Rockstar staff fouded Deep Silver Viea ( ow a divisio of the Koch Media Group. The goal of the VRVis project "Creative Histories" is to recostruct a complex 3D model of a urba eviromet (Josefsplatz i Viea) from historical pictures ad paitigs ad preset it o mobile devices to address a wide audiece. Icluded will be a user adaptive meta-iformatio system that eables the visualizatio of complex, iterliked historic evets. A particularly iterestig compay is Avaloop ( a firm focusig etirely o 3D olie scearios. The project which has received the most iteratioal attetio is Papermit ( i which gamig is combied with social etworkig. Other importat compaies iclude Sproig ( Greetube ( Edelweiss ( ad JoWood ( JoWood is Austria s biggest game developer ad resposible for the award-wiig releases Agatha Christie: Murder o the Oriet Express ad Agatha Christie: Evil Uder the Su, amog others. Its distributio ceter is i Viea. JoWood ows the Caadia compay DreamCatcher ad also has a subsidiary i Romaia. Viea is also home to oe of the most sophisticated suppliers of the gamig idustry, Rabcat ( developig high-ed, real-time 3D cotet for publishers ad developers from aroud the world. Seite 37

40 DIGITAL CULTURE From Heritage to Future May of the most creative mids atteded the School for Game Egieerig ud Simulatio at Techikum Wie ( a uiversity of applied sciece; the Istitute of Computer Graphics ad Algorithms ( at the Viea Uiversity of Techology; or the Games College ( To ecourage exchage amog practitioers, the gamig idustry i Viea has created various platforms, icludig the Game Tak ( Gamers ( ad the etertaimet software associatio OVUS ( as well as support blogs such as Game Studies ( ad CG Forum ( Idustry players get competitive oce at year at the aual Austria Gamers Choice Award. I 2008, both JoWood ad Greetube received awards, the latter for its wildly successful ORF Ski Challege ( Media Quarter Marx, a brad ew ceter for the creative idustries. There are other excitig developmets i Viea i digital TV, virtual reality ad various Web 2.0 applicatios. The City of Viea has embraced these developmets i its support for the Media Quarter Marx ( a brad ew ceter for the creative idustries. Located i the St. Marx quarter of Viea, the grouds were oce home to a slaughterhouse. Just aroud the corer is T-Mobile s spectacular T-Ceter buildig. By 2010, over 30,000 m 2 office space ad studio facilities will be available for use by film, TV, multimedia ad other high-tech operatios. The aim is to establish the ceter as a hub for creative East-West collaboratio. I total, there are over 170,000 m 2 available o site for further developmet. I 2004 the Viea Busiess Agecy created a platform for the support ad fudig of compaies i the field of creative idustries: departure ( has sice helped more tha 166 projects to establish themselves o the market. Seite 38

41 ICT ADDRESSES AND CONTACTS Iformatio & Commuicatio Techologies i Viea Iformatio & Support: Viea Busiess Agecy, VBA Ivestmet ad busiess promotio agecy of the City of Viea Zetrum für Iovatio & Techologie, ZIT Ceter for Iovatio ad Techology; techology agecy of the City of Viea ad VBA subsidiary departure The fudig ad support platform for the creative idustries ad a VBA subsidiary Viea Sciece ad Techology Fud, WWTF Promotio ad fudig of sciece ad research i Viea Austria Busiess Agecy, ABA Ivestmet agecy of the Republic of Austria Austria Trade Austria Trade is the official Austria foreig trade promotio orgaizatio Associatios & Platforms: Viea IT Eterprises, VITE ICT associatio; platform of the VBA Professioal Associatio of Maagemet Cosultig ad Iformatio Techology, UBIT Official ICT associatio of the Austria Federal Ecoomic Chamber Professioal Telecommuicatio Associatio Official telecom associatio of the Austria Federal Ecoomic Chamber Iteret Service Providers Austria, ISPA Austria ISP associatio Associatio of Alterative Telecom Providers Associatio of alterative telecommuicatios compaies Austria Computer Society, OCG ICT associatio with a clear emphasis o research-related issues Arbeitsgemeischaft für Dateverarbeitug, ADV ICT associatio with a strog focus o ICT semiars ad cofereces Austria Iteratioal Cosultats, AIC Export-orieted cosultats associatio with ICT as oe of several priorities Busiess Parks with ICT focus: Doau City Busiess Park Viea Euro Plaza Techology & Research Clusters: TechGate Busiess & Research Ceter Bea Busiess Bases PRISMA Ceters Seite 39

42 ICT ADDRESSES AND CONTACTS Viea IT Eterprises (VITE) Viea Busiess Agecy Meldemastrasse 18, 1200 Viea, Austria Phoe: [email protected] City of Viea Chief Executive Office Executive Group for Orgaizatio, Safety ad Security Iformatio ad Commuicatio Techology Rathausstrasse 8, 1010 Viea, Austria Phoe: [email protected] This group is resposible for strategy developmet regardig iformatio ad commuicatio techology i the admiistratio of the City of Viea. Viea Hospital Associatio Iformatio Techology Viehmarktgasse 4, 1030 Viea, Austria Phoe: [email protected] The departmet Iformatio Techology supports employees of the Viea Hospital Associatio i all IT-related issues i their workplace. Muicipal Departmet 27 EU-Strategy ad Ecoomic Developmet Schlesigerplatz 2, 1080 Viea, Austria Phoe: [email protected] The Viea Busiess Agecy (VBA) The Viea Busiess Agecy or VBA is the City of Viea s primary busiess promotio vehicle. Its missio is to boost the competitiveess of the Viea busiess commuity, drivig iovatio ad cotiually upgradig the city s status as a state-of-the-art busiess destiatio. The VBA offers professioal cosultig services for etrepreeurs, start ups ad ivestors icludig support i obtaiig fiacial assistace ad help i the selectio, developmet ad acquisitio of appropriate sites. The VBA assists ad ivests i the costructio ad operatio of advaced techology ad start-up ceters. It supports etworkig ad the orgaizatio of cooperative vetures throughout Austria ad the EU. Fially, the VBA oversees the marketig of Viea as a world-class busiess locatio o a iteratioal level. The Viea Busiess Agecy is publicly fiaced i large part by the City of Viea. At the same time, with aroud 3.5 millio square meters i holdigs, the VBA raks amog the City s largest property owers. The Ceter for Iovatio ad Techology (ZIT) The ZIT (from the Germa Zetrum für Iovatio ud Techologie ) is a subsidiary of the Viea Busiess Agecy (VBA) ad serves as the techology agecy of the City of Viea. ZIT activities iclude providig direct fiacial assistace (i.e. grats) to compaies, makig techology-specific ifrastructure available, ad implemetig a broad rage of accompayig measures i all phases of the iovatio process. Ceter employees evaluate the techology sector with respect to treds, developmets ad fuctioality. O this basis, they desig measures to support techology-orieted compaies. Seite 40

43 Viea IT Eterprises (VITE) Viea IT Eterprises is a etwork for IT compaies, R&D ad educatioal istitutios. It is a Viea Busiess Agecy (VBA) project. VITE s medium ad log-term objectives are to stregthe the iovative power ad the competitiveess of its parters o both atioal ad iteratioal levels. VITE s mai targets are raisig ad ehacig awareess of the value of cooperatio ad coectig already existig skills of experts. To reach these goals VITE offers a platform for the implemetatio of ideas ad iitiatives. VITE offers umerous services such as orgaizig evets ad workshops o curret issues ad advisig o PR ad marketig activities i Austria ad abroad. Furthermore VITE provides fudig opportuities ad cosultig services o locatio; it supports matchmakig, coects potetial parters, ad offers geeral project assistace. Viea Sciece ad Techology Fud (WWTF) The Viea Sciece ad Techology Fud (or WWTF for Wieer Wisseschafts-, Forschugs- ud Techologiefods ) is a o-profit orgaizatio established to promote sciece ad research i Viea.The orgaizatio s fudig tools ad methods are desiged to boost elite research i Viea. Some of its calls for bids are explicitly directed to promisig youg scietists. The WWTF obtais its fuds from the Privatstiftug zur Verwaltug vo Ateilsrechte, a private foudatio i the fiacial sector. departure wirtschaft, kust ud kultur gmbh departure, a fudig orgaizatio ad poit of cotact for those active i the creative idustries, was established i departure addresses creative professioals who are used to thikig ad actig commercially, who accept the basic rules ad mechaisms of the ecoomy ad cosider themselves part of busiess life. departure supports etrepreeurs ad compay fouders active i the creative idustries who wat to get thigs movig i the city ad who cotribute meaigfully to the prosperity of the metropolis of Viea people for whom it is a cocer to brig more iteratioal cultural ad ecoomic flair to the city ad thus to stregthe the iovative power of a etire regio. The objectives of departure are maifold: the developmet of a ecoomically sustaiable basis for Viea s creative professioals which shall promote ecoomic growth, create ew jobs, ad ecourage the foudig of ew compaies. This requires promotig etrepreeurial kow-how ad the cooperatio betwee creative professioals ad commerce.

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