Science Park Graz
Graz high-tech incubator and home of ESA BIC Austria — the country's space technology incubator, and the incubator behind Drone Rescue Systems.
Graz, Austria
2-10
Vitality Radar
67
Current
6M History
Industry
Updated 13 days ago
Pillar Analysis
Presence
72
Digital footprint, brand visibility, and online reach across channels
Business
68
Revenue signals, funding status, partnerships, and market traction
Innovation
74
R&D activity, patents, product launches, and technology adoption
Pulse
58
Recent momentum — hiring trends, news mentions, and social engagement
Capacity
65
Team strength, leadership depth, and organizational scale
Strategic Assessment
Strategic Vector
Science Park Graz is positioned as a high‑tech, university‑anchored incubator and ESA BIC Austria manager, focusing on scalable technology startups and space‑related ventures from Graz and the broader CEE region.
Efficiency Ratio
Given its small core team and large portfolio of incubated startups, the organization appears to convert limited internal resources into substantial programmatic and ecosystem output.
Evidence Signals
No dated public events found. The pillar scores above rest on the analyst assessment alone.
- About
- Science Park Graz GmbH, founded 2002, at Sandgasse 36/IV in Graz, with 2 to 10 staff. A publicly funded institution supporting the creation of innovative technology-based startups in Graz and Styria, working with founders from TRL 1-3 (idea) through TRL 4-6 (prototype) to TRL 7-9 (on the market). It provides counselling, coaching, infrastructure and financing in the pre-startup period, backed by a mentoring programme bundling expertise from all Styrian university institutions and successful entrepreneurs. ESA BIC AUSTRIA. SPG manages and coordinates the ESA Business Incubation Centre in Austria, opened in 2016 as part of the Europe-wide BIC network, aimed at transferring technologies from space into other parts of the economy. SPG is also ESA Business Applications Ambassador for Austria, offering network access and funding routes for SMEs and industry using space systems and technologies. NETWORK AND FINANCE. Part of AplusB, the Austrian incubator network of nine incubation centres bridging academia and business. A cooperation with Steiermärkische Sparkasse provides financing routes for startups. CURRENT PORTFOLIO examples include DiLT Analytics (a computer science faculty spin-off), PureSurf (bio-based surfactants) and openmaind (platform-independent SaaS coordinating heterogeneous robot fleets).
- Relevancy
- Graz incubator that runs ESA BIC Austria, the national space technology incubator — and the place Drone Rescue Systems came from. On the evidence of this map it is one of only two routes by which a new Austrian aerospace company gets started.
- Tags
- #incubator #ESABIC #spinout