Building on the past success, Austria has the opportunity today to catapult itself into the group of leaders, in keeping with the federal government’s vision of positioning Austria among the top three most innovative economies. However, as the system evaluation clearly showed, this leap requires further structural reforms. As a consequence, the evaluators call for a change in strategy to turn Austria into a front-runner in the area of technology development.
As the ministry responsible for applied research and technology development, the bmvit is stepping up to this challenge. It is committed to supporting the process of reform in order to make the research system even more efficient. To this end, a joint research strategy should first be developed that will involve all responsible ministries.
