Full steam ahead at PIER 4

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Network, scout and support: the start-up incubator tech2b has launched PIER 4, a networking initiative in Upper Austria between top companies and smart start-ups.

PIER 4 sees itself as a free zone for industry, developers and founders, a dock on which flagships of Austrian industry can anchor in order to load valuable freight, namely ideas, solutions and prototypes for industry of tomorrow. The companies Amag, ELIN, Energie AG, Fabasoft, Lenzing AG, Miba and Primetals Technologies are among the firms on board. The initiative hopes for promising proposals in areas such as smart materials, artificial intelligence, digitalization and e-mobility.