Business Location Lower Austria

Population: 1,670,668

Area: 19,178 km² (biggest region in Austria)

Capital: St. Pölten

Employed population (2018): 620,189 (Source: WKO)

Regional BIP per capita (2017): 34,400 Euro (Source: WKO)

Education

Universities of Applied Sciences:

• IMC Fachhochschule Krems

• Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt

• Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt - Standort Wieselburg

• Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt - Standort Tulln

• Fachhochschule St. Pölten

Universities:

• Department für Agrarbiotechnologie IFA Tulln - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

Postgraduate Universities:

• Donau-Universität Krems

• IST Austria - Klosterneuburg - International institute for basic research

• New Design University (Private University of the creative industry), St. Pölten

Private Universities:

• Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Krems

• Danube Private University, Department Medicine/Dentistry, Krems

• Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel

Research

Technopols in Lower Austria:

• Technopol Wieselburg

• Technopol Krems

• Technopol Tulln

• Technopol Wiener Neustadt

FFG- Competence Centers and K-Projects

Excellent K2-Comet Center:
X-Tribologie (Wiener Neustadt)

K1 Centers:

• ACMIT (Wiener Neustadt)

• CEST Periode (Wiener Neustadt)

• Wood Comet (Upper Austria, Lower Austria– Tulln)

• Bioenergy 2020+ Comet Projektjahr, (Styria, Burgenland, Lower Austria– Wieselburg)

K-Projects:

• Focus_sts – focus solid timber solutions (Styria, Tyrol, Carinthia, Lower Austria)

• GSC – Green Storage Grid (Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna)

• PVM Preventive Veterinary Medicine Improving pig health for save pork productions (Lower Austria)

• ADDA – Advancement of Dairying in Austria (Vienna, Lower Austria)

• Im PACTts- Industrial Methods for Process Analytical Chemestry (Upper Austria, Lower Austria)

• OptiBioMat Development and optimization of biocompatibel metallic materials (Seibersdorf/Wiener Neustadt)

Christian Doppler Research institutes in Lower Austria:

• Mycotoxin metabolism (Technopol Tulln)

• Moderne cellulose chemistry and analytics (Technopol Tulln)

• Analytics of general food contamination (Technopol Tulln)

• Innovative therapeutic approaches for the treatment of sepsis (Technopol Krems)

Further Science- and Research Locations in Lower Austria (Selection):

• Austrian Institute of Technology – AIT  (Seibersdorf, Wiener Neustadt, Tulln)

• IST Austria (Klosterneuburg)

• MedAustron (Wiener Neustadt)

Clusters Lower Austria:

• Green Building Cluster of Lower Austria

• Food Cluster of Lower Austria

• Plastics Cluster

• Mechatronics-Cluster

• "e-Mobility Initiative of Lower Austria"

Economic parks:

ecoplus Wirtschafts- und Beteiligungsparks