Carinthia: Competence Centre for Technology
Carinthia’s economy is steaming ahead, in particular in the fields of technology, innovation and research: Research intensity has grown steadily and significantly since 2009. At present, Carinthia spends 3.15 percent of its GDP on research, putting it in fourth place in a comparison of Austrian regions. The high proportion of corporate R&D is also unusually high at 75 percent.
Much of this is due to international flagship companies such as Infineon Technologies Austria, Lam Research, Kapsch TrafficCom and Flex. Together with the many research-focused small and medium sized enterprises, these firms play an important role in shaping developments in areas such as electronics and micro-electronics, mechatronics and medical engineering. Read more