The Softwarepark Hagenberg is the Austrian

technology park A science park (also called a "university research park", "technology park”, "technopark", “technopole", or a "science and technology park" (STP)) is defined as being a property-based development that accommodates and fosters the growt ...

for

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

, located in

Hagenberg im Mühlkreis Hagenberg im Mühlkreis is a town in the district of Freistadt in the Austrian state of Upper Austria 20 km from Linz. Hagenberg became known for Softwarepark Hagenberg a major technology park focusing on IT, with research, education and busi ...

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, founded in 1989 by Professor

Bruno Buchberger Bruno Buchberger (born 22 October 1942) is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases, and has developed this theory throughout his career. ...

. The Softwarepark Hagenberg is a unique collaboration where research, business and education are intensively cooperating. Because of its success, the park has been called the "Wunder von Hagenberg" (miracle from Hagenberg).

History

Buchberger devised the concept for the park in 1989. It was created to balance both economic needs and desire for research and as such, the concept focused one third on economic production, one third on research and one third on academic education in the field of IT and related sciences. These three components drive a synergetic "spirale of innovation". Softwarepark has four main partners: The Province of Upper Austria, the

Johannes Kepler University Linz The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: ''Johannes Kepler Universität Linz'', short: ''JKU'') is a public institution of higher education in Austria. It is located in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It offers bachelor's, master's, d ...

, th
Community of Hagenberg
and Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich, a major local bank. The first institute to be established in the park was Buchberger's

Research Institute for Symbolic Computation The Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC Linz) is a research institute in the area of symbolic computation, including automated theorem proving and computer algebra. It is located in Schloß Hagenberg in Hagenberg near Linz in Austria. ...

(RISC) with then 25 students and employees. Today Softwarepark is increasing its international activities, e.g. wit
ISI - International Studies in Informatics Hagenberg
or the recently launche
International Incubator Hagenberg
Within the twenty years of its existence, 100 million € were invested into developing the park.

Composition

The park currently houses 50 companies with more than 1000 employees as well as more than 1400 students of a number of universities and colleges, amongst them the

, and the Software Competence Center Hagenberg SCCH funded by the Austrian

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program. Additionally, the park houses a social project for people with disabilities to provide computer support in cooperation with the

Diakonisches Werk The Diakonie Deutschland is a charitable organization of Protestant churches in Germany (Evangelical Church in Germany), Austria as well as numerous free churches. Its Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city ...

Gallneukirchen Gallneukirchen (Central Bavarian: ''Goineikircha'') is a small town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria and is part of the district Urfahr-Umgebung. Motto ''Experience the city, enjoy the land – "Stadt erleben Land genießen (original)"' ...

and the Fachhochschule Hagenberg.

Expansion

The current expansion schedule plans to expand the park with 20 million € in funds until 2012, with the expansion of the

as well as a hotel, sport arenas and an international student union building. An additional 50 million € are planned to be invested until 2014 for the expansion of the companies and research institutes in the park.

Books

References

External links

Softwarepark Hagenberg website
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