AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria's largest non-university research institution and is among European research institutions, the specialist for the key infrastructure issues of the future.

AIT is strategically positioned as a key player in the Austrian and European innovation system by performing applied research for and enabling the market exploitation of innovative infrastructure related solutions. This functionality of “bridging the gap between research and technology commercialisation”1 is seen as a fundamental role for commercialisation of new technologies and strengthening economic development.

In regard to the Austrian innovation system AIT fulfils this role by its new orientation, providing a research environment to address mid- to long-term challenges of Austrian key industries.

Compared to universities which are focusing on basic research and COMET competence centres addressing more the short term exploitation of research results by joint research efforts of universities, research organisations and industry, AIT covers the entire spectrum from taking up emerging technologies, first proof of concepts, applied research to transferring these emerging technologies into specific applications up to demonstrators and prototyping. This allows us to bridge basic research and industrial pick up of new technologies for commercialisation.