Quantum physics: Successful spin-off company from the University of Innsbruck
It is no longer a big secret that the field of quantum physics is popular and extremely successful at the University of Innsbruck. It is therefore all the less surprising that a spin-off company from the university is just as successful in the field of quantum physics.
INNSBRUCK. In addition to students who are trained on the current state of research, the University of Innsbruck also provides the Foundations for technological, economic and social developments. Entrepreneurship would be stimulated and promoted at the University of Innsbruck, like that Rector Tilmann Mark.
“To this end, we founded an investment company back in 2008 that supports start-ups and offers companies active investment management.”
Successful spin-off strategy
Thanks to its successful spin-off strategy, the University of Innsbruck became one Special position in the Austrian university landscape attested. This role is also confirmed by an OECD study on “Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education in Austria”. The university holding company is currently on 21 companies involved, which together have quickly created 200 jobs and generate sales in the millions. The portfolio includes companies from the areas Chemistry and ecology, digitization, finance, textile technology and construction engineering.
Recently came along Parity Quantum Computing (ParityQC) and Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) two companies that use know-how from basic research to develop quantum computers.
What is ParityQC?
Parity Quantum Computing GmbH (ParityQC) was founded in Innsbruck in 2020 and markets an invention that was co-developed by Wolfgang Lechner at the University of Innsbruck and patented in 2015. die quantum architecture company does not sell hardware, but blueprints, operating systems and algorithms for quantum computers. Now the company, as part of a consortium together with NXP and eleQtron, has been commissioned by the German Aerospace Center to design and build several quantum computers. A total of more than 200 million euros is estimated for this. Investor Hermann Hauser, the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences are also involved in the spin-off. A subsidiary was founded in Germany last year, which will now also serve as a hub for the major order.
Technology center on the Technology campus
The University of Innsbruck would like to support the very positive development in knowledge transfer through the Creation of space for the establishment of spin-offs strengthen sustainably. Together with the state of Tyrol, a Technology center on the Technology campus be created.
“We also want to locate a mixture of young start-ups and established companies close to the university in order to enable a dynamic exchange between business and science,”
stressed Anton Mattle, Governor of Tyrol.
This will also be the case on Campus Technik by 2028 house of physics built. Quantum physics enjoys an excellent reputation worldwide, and the University of Innsbruck is laying the foundations for new quantum technologies of the future.
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