IONICON Analytik is the market leader for highly sensitive real-time trace gas analyzers (PTR-MS) with many potential applications. The company was founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the University of Innsbruck with the sale of the first system, built by scientists for scientists. We have constantly improved the system’s performance for cutting edge scientific research (Lab) and its usability...
The challenges of our modern society require the development of novel sensors for the rapid detection and quantification of chemicals. We developed an uncooled infrared (IR) detector based on nanoelectromechanical sensing (NEMS) where resonators made of silicon nitride act as highly sensitive platforms for photothermal sensing. NEMILIE combines air filtering and nebulization techniques to...
Basel Precision Instruments GmbH (BASPI) is a young spin-off of the Zumbühl Group at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Our vision is to provide a better lens into the quantum world by enabling researchers to minimize noise, achieve lower temperatures and maximize stability in their experiments. Over one hundred laboratories across the globe are already using BASPI's instruments in...
Perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) can improve applications from displays to scintillators because of their superior light-emitting properties compared to classical quantum dots. Standing in the way of these applications is the difficulty to process PQDs into devices, especially into the polymer thin films used in displays and scintillators, without losing their unique properties. BrightComSol...
The company usePAT was founded in early 2018, it offers the application of ultrasonic fields to support industrial in-line measurements. A decade of interdisciplinary research collaboration between a group from the Faculty of Physics (sensors and ultrasound) and the Faculty of Chemistry (process analysis) preceded the foundation. The commercialisation opportunity has emerged over the years in...
Concerning the commercialization of Intellectual Property and the facilitation and backing of spin-offs, the University of Innsbruck is among the most active and most experienced Universities in Austria. In this talk, you will hear how this topic developed since the 1980s and will get valuable and encouraging insights how to improve your “entrepreneurial mindset” and how to transfer your...
Since 2008 [Optotune][1] has developed multiple pioneering product lines, which include tunable optical devices, such as lenses, mirrors, and prisms as well as beam modulation devices for enhancing image resolution, speckle reduction or dynamic beam deflection. Optotune's technologies are sold to industrial and consumer markets and are used in applications ranging from machine vision to...
With a background in Physics and Engineering the four students Susanne, Florian, Alex, and Luis founded the start-up Holo-Light in 2015. The extended reality (XR) company specializes in immersive technologies and has created groundbreaking solutions for the enterprise market. Holo-Light’s remote rendering software component ISAR enables users to stream entire big data XR applications in...
The world is experiencing a quantum revolution with astonishing potential for innovation. We present here a new quantum microscope based on NV center technology and show how it's already used today to advance research in materials science and spintronics. We review challenges specific to developing quantum technologies and highlight further opportunities in quantum sensing.
I will outline the development of the spin-out ParityQC from the first patent as a PostDoc to the venture capital based foundation of the company. ParityQC is a spin-out of the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences established in 2019. The company is based on the invention of the Parity Quantum Computing architecture which allows for solving optimization problems on...
Building on top of more than 20 years of research and development at the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the startup AQT has realized the first 19'' rack-based ion-trap quantum computer. The system has demonstrated control of up to 50 ions, is offering fault-tolerant gate performance and cloud-access. The realized stand-alone solutions, in particular the...
Since its invention several decades ago, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has evolved to a widely used technique for producing objects of a multitude of materials as polymers, metals, concrete or even ceramics, both in prototyping as well as serial production. Recent works show first signs that glass will follow that road.
Swarovski has invested into an internal venture setup for AM of glass,...
