Our Mission is to
We facilitate entrepreneurial spirit at TUW by organizing various events open to the public: The PIONEER TOMORROW: Insights Unplugged Series, the Distinguished Speaker Series, the Networking Friday, JointForces, Demo Days, and joint events with our partners.
We offer top quality education and coaching for acquiring entrepreneurial/business competences.
We support innovative founder teams along the whole value chain – from ideation to implementation, market entry & scaling.
We ensure the framework needed and access to the essential network.
Upcoming Events
#EoI – How Psychological Safety Fuels Innovation & Collaboration
Join this Masterclass to understand why psychological safety matters and how to foster it.Psychological safety is the foundation of effective collaboration, innovation, and learning in teams. In this interactive workshop,… Read more
Latest News
Innovation Insights: The Future of Entrepreneurial Universities
Globally, the increasing rate of change to the way we live and work is a scenario made for entrepreneurial minds. The World Economic Forum predicts that for today’s graduates, they can expect 7+ career changes and on average 17+ different jobs,... Read more
Investing in potential, celebrating performance
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination,ˮ wrote Daniel Bell, a sharp observer of modern sociology. Yet imagination alone has never been enough to move societies forward. Ideas must be shaped by people, strengthened by institutions,... Read more
aptiTUdes.LAB: the future skills generator
The world continues to ask universities to produce sharper engineers, faster coders, and more innovative researchers. Yet the qualities that determine whether these graduates succeed (teamwork, adaptability, communication, and resourcefulness) are often left to chance. TU Wienʼs aptiTUdes.LAB is challenging... Read more
Get Ready to ViennaUP Your Game – The Festival Returns in 2026
VBA partnership: festival promotion press release Get Ready to ViennaUP Your Game — The Festival Returns in 2026 From 18–22 May 2026, ViennaUP, Europe’s largest decentralized startup festival organized by the Vienna Business Agency, will return to Austria’s capital, turning... Read more
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Insights from Our Community
CHATRI SITYODTONG
Speaker at the i²c, Serial Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO at ONE Championship
It is really amazing that i²c is sowing the seeds of future entrepreneurs, future success and future global changers from Austria. This marriage of academics with real-life experience – it is world class for sure.
CHRISTOPH KROFITSCH
Diploma Supplement on Innovation Alumnus 2016, Co-Founder and COO of byrd technologies GmbH
The Diploma Supplement on Innovation is the only sensible way at TU Wien to learn and practice entrepreneurship. Its combination of theory, exercises, and hands-on projects was highly valuable for me – I recommend it to anybody having interest in implementing their own ideas.
MIRIAM UNTERLASS
StartAcademy Alumna 2016, Co-Founder and CSO of UGP materials, Researcher and Lecturer at TU Wien
I am completely overwhelmed by all the amazing things I learned in such a short time. I especially value the ratio of mentors to teams. That allowed us to have one-on-one discussions with exceptional and experienced people.