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Technopoles are platforms for know-how transfer, knowledge dissemination and promotion of regional and international cooperation. Their objective is to create technology-oriented economic areas to strengthen the economics of special regions. The Technopole Programme of Lower Austria started in 2004...

The National Cluster Platform (NCP) Austria is a cooperation platform for cluster institutions, cluster members and cluster experts, established at the initiative of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs. Currently, 71 clusters and networks are members of the National Cluster...

The 'House of Digitalisation' is part of the Lower Austrian digitalisation strategy. It is an interface for digital transformation and is currently used as an interactive platform with personalised services and an automatic proposal system to network Lower Austrian companies with research and...

DIHOST is a project coordinated by the Lower Austrian business agency ecoplus to provide non-profit support for the digital transformation of SMEs in the Eastern part of Austria. It offers access to digital know-how and test infrastructure of five knowledge providers and involves business and...

The COMET programme is a central funding programme of the Austrian technology politics. COMET is managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW)...

METS Ignited (the Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Growth Centre) is part of the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Centres Initiative. METS Ignited works with Australian suppliers to the mining industry, global miners, research organisations and capital providers to improve the global...

AustCyber is a not-for-profit organisation, part of the Industry Growth Centres Initiative, working to develop an Australian cybersecurity ecosystem, export Australia’s cyber security to the world, and make Australia the leading centre for cyber education. In particular, one of their priorities is...

In 2013 the Government of Armenia established the Alliance Free Economic Zone (Alliance FEZ) in the Yerevan region. The Alliance free economic zone is oriented to the production and exports of high and innovative technologies i.e. electronics, precision engineering, pharmaceutics and biotechnologies...

In 2017, Albania introduced the Law on the Establishment and Functioning of Technology and Economic Development Areas (TEDA) in order to attract foreign direct investments and promote economic development. A number of TEDAs have been identified across the country and are in planning/development...