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The “Venturepreneurship Aula”, a series of events that we organize together with the Center for Entrepreurship of the University of Graz, was entirely dedicated to corporates and their relationship to startups. How do large companies innovate, do both sides benefit from each other and does cooperation make sense? More than 200 visitors came to the

The initiators of the Startup Barometer (from left to right): Matthias Ruhri (Head of Company Builder, Up to Eleven), Christoph Kovacic (Regional Chairman Junge Wirtschaft Steiermark), Julia Leitinger (President IdeenTriebwerk Graz), Andrea Keimel (Head of the Department for Economic and Tourism Development of the City of Graz), Bernhard Weber (ZWI Centre for Knowledge and Innovation

We are thrilled! Now it’s official: the construction site has started. So we are full steam ahead. The first foundations of our Hub for Innovators will soon be visible. We can then start full operation as planned at the end of 2020. Among other things, the centre is made possible by the good cooperation with

A new Spin-off from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz is in the starting blocks. The Team is looking for a Startup-CEO / CoFounder for Image Enhancer. Image Enhancer is an algorithm that enhances images by significantly reducing noise in real-time. ​We are looking for a healthcare entrepreneur (or executive with entrepreneurial drive) to lead this early stage startup

Groundbreaking findings for the health of bees: Javier Hernández López, Ulrike Riessberger-Gallé and Wolfgang Schühly have discovered a substance against American foulbrood. American and European foulbrood are devastating diseases of the honey bee that occur worldwide and are caused by various gram-positive bacteria. Epidemic-like outbreaks cause immense economic damage worldwide in the honey industry and

At the beginning of a spin-off there is the conceptual step from the research result towards a business model. This requires intensive talks and discussions. We had many such discussions at our Science2Business Challenge from 12 to 14 November 2018 in the ZWI.Space at the University of Graz. The first/next steps towards spin-off were taken.

We proudly welcome Innophore GmbH in our ZWI.space. If you are in the need of identifying new or novel enzyme candidates, these are the experts you should ask!

Young talents are encouraged, creative spirits are awakened: the Karl Franzens University Graz is building a new centre for knowledge and innovation transfer (ZWI) at Schubertstraße 6a with the support of the Province of Styria and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). At the same time the BIG (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft in direct neighbourhood a new home