The Softwarepark Hagenberg is a unique collaboration where research, business and education are intensively cooperating.
Softwarepark has four main partners: The Province of Upper Austria, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the Community of Hagenberg, and Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich, a major local bank.
[1] The park currently houses 50 companies with more than 1000 employees as well as more than 1400 students of a number of universities and colleges, amongst them the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation,[1][3] and the Software Competence Center Hagenberg SCCH[5] funded by the Austrian COMET program.
Additionally, the park houses a social project for people with disabilities to provide computer support in cooperation with the Diakonisches Werk Gallneukirchen and the Fachhochschule Hagenberg.
[1] An additional 50 million € are planned to be invested until 2014 for the expansion of the companies and research institutes in the park.