Hermann Maria Hauser (born 1948[6]) is an Austrian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.

Hauser's role in Acorn was portrayed by Edward Baker-Duly in the BBC drama Micro Men.

[20] The company planned to launch its first product after Christmas 1990, featuring an approximately A5-sized reflective display, automatic recognition of printed, as opposed to cursive, characters, and employing a multipurpose chip called Hercules featuring a static, low-power ARM core.

[21] The Active Book was intended to cost around $2,000, provide eight to ten hours of battery life, and was to run the Helios operating system.

[22] Not wanting to repeat the mistakes made by Acorn, which had kept its technology to itself, he demonstrated the Active Book to as many large companies as he could.

AT&T Corporation acquired Active Book in July 1991[23][better source needed] and incorporated it into their EO Personal Communicator, which was released in April 1993.

[31] On 14 June 2001, the Hauser-Raspe Foundation was registered as a charity to advance education, by Hauser and his wife Pamela Raspe.

Solexa developed a next-generation DNA sequencing technology which became the market leader; the company was sold to Illumina, Inc of San Diego in January 2007 for over $US600 million.

He is a member of the advisory board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and of the UK's Council for Science and Technology.

A major contributor to the global technology and growth agendas and an influential member of senior policy making bodies.

An inspiration and role-model for generations of entrepreneurs who has been directly involved in many companies, providing enthusiasm, mentoring, and financing leading to technology based wealth creation at scale.