Innovation Labs & Maker Spaces

Infrastructure for Open Innovation

The Innovation Labs & Maker Spaces funding programme is a structural contribution to the aims of the Open Innovation Strategy (2016). The programme funds the establishment of innovation workshops offering an innovative environment with both physical and intangible infrastructure. They enable new groups to be involved and mobilised in innovative activities, and act as local, interactive spaces for communication.
Possible forms of Innovation Labs & Maker Spaces:
  • They offer a real-world development environment with the necessary physical and intangible RTI infrastructure to enable innovative projects and/or to translate ideas or research results into marketable products and services.
  • They support access for new users (e.g. trades, teachers).
  • They promote the creation and expansion of innovation expertise and knowledge exchange.
  • They provide many user groups with transparent and non-discriminatory access.
  • They are designed to be long-term, and can be funded for up to 5 years. During this time they are intended to support innovative businesses, research establishments and other user groups (e.g. schools, private individuals, non-commercial organisations) in their efforts to innovate.
Innovation Labs & Maker Spaces are not:
  • existing project clusters
  • pure project offices
  • highly standardised test environments used as part of approval procedures, e.g. clinical studies 

 

Legal entities, partnerships and sole traders that are not part of the federal administration are in principle eligible to participate as consortium partners.
The following are eligible for funding:
(i) companies of any legal form,
(ii) institutions of research and knowledge dissemination: universities and universities of applied sciences, non-university research institutions, technology transfer institutions, innovation agents and other research-oriented organisations such as associations with a relevant purpose,
(iii) other non-commercial institutions: local authorities and autonomous bodies, non-profit making organisations such as NPOs

The essential in brief

Closed Availability
09.04.2018 - 31.12.2024
Initiative for
(Non-profit) AssociationsAuthoritiesCompetence centresLarge companiesResearch facilitiesSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)Start UpUniversitiesUniversities of applied sciences
Funders
Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism Logo
Logo der Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung

Contact

LOHWASSER Barbara

Barbara LOHWASSER

+43 577 55-2201 E-Mail
BEDNAR Brigitte

Brigitte BEDNAR

+43 577 55-2410 +43 664 8 84158-83 E-Mail
GRANDITS Kristina

Kristina GRANDITS

+43 577 55-2403 +43 664 8 83884-60 E-Mail

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