Softwarepark Hagenberg

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 [http://www.hagenberg.at Community of Hagenberg], and Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich, a major local bank.{{cite web|url=http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/reportage/art57,104515|title=Softwarepark will Anzahl der Mitarbeiter verdoppeln|last=Rubasch|first=Ulrike|date=4 February 2009|publisher=nachrichten.at|language=German|accessdate=2009-07-28}} The first institute to be established in the park was Buchberger's Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) with then 25 students and employees.

Today Softwarepark is increasing its international activities, e.g. with [http://www.isi-hagenberg.at/ ISI - International Studies in Informatics Hagenberg] or the recently launched [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620053308/http://www.international-incubator.com/ International Incubator Hagenberg].

Within the twenty years of its existence, 100 million € were invested into developing the park.

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 Research Institute for Symbolic Computation,{{cite web|url=https://www.wirtschaftsblatt.at/home/oesterreich/unternehmen/oberoesterreich/363389/index.do?_vl_pos=r.3.MOST|title=20 Millionen € für den Softwarepark Hagenberg|last=Leitner|first=Karl|date=24 February 2009|publisher=WirtschaftsBlatt|language=German|accessdate=2009-07-28}} and the Software Competence Center Hagenberg SCCHhttp://www.scch.at/en/ Software Competence Center Hagenberg funded by the Austrian COMET program.

Additionally, the park houses a social project for people with disabilities to provide computer support in cooperation with the Diakonisches Werk Gallneukirchen and the Fachhochschule Hagenberg.{{cite web|url=http://derstandard.at/2282479|title=Sozialprojekt schneidert Maß-PC|last=Tzschentke|first=Karin|date=29 December 2005|publisher=Der Standard|language=German|accessdate=2009-07-28}}

The current expansion schedule plans to expand the park with 20 million € in funds until 2012, with the expansion of the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation 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.

• {{cite book|title=Hagenberg Research|editor=Buchberger, Bruno|publisher=Springer Verlag|date=1 July 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IalPM4egILwC|isbn=978-3-642-02126-8|display-editors=etal}}

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• [http://www.softwarepark-hagenberg.com/ Softwarepark Hagenberg website]

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