How strategic public procurement can help resolve the innovation paradox
When deployed effectively, it can generate the demand that enables businesses to bring innovations to market and to scale locally.
Are we squandering our reputation as a sustainability frontrunner?
We are globally recognised for our innovative energy and environmental technologies, yet R&D spending has recently fallen significantly—while countries like Japan and Finland invest four times as much.
The innovation paradox: Why research so rarely translates into commercialisation
What are the causes of the gap in transferring knowledge into impact and value creation—and what solutions exist?
Research & development in Austria 2026: Financing and trends
How is research financed in Austria, and how has the R&D ratio developed over the past two decades?
Evidence, expertise, trust: What politics really needs today
The art of evidence-informed policymaking lies in productively combining different forms of knowledge, rather than setting them hierarchically against one another.
Industrial strategy: From policy framework to effective innovation architecture
What can Austria’s Industrial Strategy 2035 learn from historical and current evidence in order to realise its full potential?
Focus, governance, transfer: Guiding principles of the RTI Pact 2027-29
A brief assessment of the new strategic framework for Austria’s research, technology and innovation policy.
Characteristics of the functional differentiation of higher education institutions
On the thematic specialisation of higher education institutions in Austria.
Technology transfer: Where productivity report and industrial strategy meet – and where they don’t
While the Productivity Report focuses on openness and flexibility, the Industrial Strategy pursues a focused, implementation-oriented approach. An analysis.
State regulation of higher education institutions by sector
A brief overview of the complex regulatory framework that governs Austria’s higher education systems.
The Austrian higher education system
How are Austria’s 77 higher education institutions distributed geographically, how large are they and how has the higher education system developed since 1955?
Academic freedom under pressure
The development of the Higher Education Strategy 2040 is a favourable opportunity to review the conditions for academic freedom.
Innovation activity declines as digital transformation progresses
Latest EIB survey confirms 2025 STI Monitor results: innovation activities on the decline, while level of digitalisation increases.
FP10: Horizon Europe and the Competitiveness Fund
On the budgetary and structural embedding of the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in the 2028–34 Multiannual Financial Framework.
Austria’s performance in STI is stagnating
Other countries are catching up rapidly and developing their innovation systems with greater dynamism and competitiveness than Austria.
Austria 19th in the Global Innovation Index 2025
Austria has dropped two places in the Global Innovation Index 2025 and has seen a marked decline in its output compared to 2023 and 2024.
Innovation Act, 28th Regime: Impetus for the startup ecosystem
Against the backdrop of ongoing public consultations on these new instruments, an analysis of the European startup strategy.
