Spotlight on the tech transfer successes of Austria

When we looked at Germany in last month’s Global University Venturing, we noted how the country was lacking an over-all strategy and legal framework for research commercialisation. The same legal reality is true in its neighbour Austria, where the Higher Education Law 2005 makes no mention of spin-out companies or commercialisation – but that has not stopped collaboration.

You could be forgiven for mistaking Austria as a country where little innovation happens at universities. Indeed, only…

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