Organisation

Vienna supports economy.

Support for the business location Vienna — for over 30 years

The Vienna Business Agency is the first point of contact for national and international companies. It offers financial support, real estate and urban development incentives as well as free service and advice.

The objective is to strengthen Viennese companies and their innovative force. As a result, the business location is sustainably developed and strengthened in international competition.

The city of Vienna’s focal strengths

The Vienna Business Agency prioritises and promotes the defined focal strengths of the city: life sciences, urban technologies, creative industries and ICT. Innovations are the key to commercial success and ensure the long-term development of the business location.

Smart City Vienna

In the areas of quality of life, infrastructure, and innovation, Smart City Vienna is considered one of the most successful cities in the world. In order to ensure this status for its inhabitants in the future, the city is faced with many challenges.

Vienna will reach the two million mark within the next 15 years. The resulting increase in energy requirements, affordable and suitable housing, and the need for reliable transport concepts calls for intelligent, sustainable, and opportunity-oriented solutions. The "Smart City" initiative therefore constantly pursues the objective of ensuring Vienna's ecological, economic, and social effectiveness and its subsequent improvement.

The organisation

The Vienna Business Agency was founded in 1982 as the Vienna Economic Development Fund (Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds) by the City of Vienna, the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, the UniCredit Bank Austria AG (formerly the Zentralsparkasse) as well as the Erste Bank der Österreichischen Sparkassen AG (formerly the Erste Österreichische Sparkasse).

Executive board

Board of directors
Advisory board
Executive committee
Chairperson
Management

Executive committee

Chairperson: Peter Hanke
Vice chairperson: Kathrin Gaal
Member of the committee: Walter Ruck
Member of the committee: Helmut Horvath
Member of the committee: Hans Arsenovic

Organizational Chart

Vienna Business Agency organigram (PDF in German)

Activity Reports

Vienna Business Agency Activity Report 2017 (PDF in German)
Vienna Business Agency Holdings Report 2017 (PDF in German)

EU co-financed projects from the Vienna Business Agency

Project "CORE" (Urban Innovative Actions Initiative)
Project "Intersectoral platform for technology developers"
Projekt "„IC3 Innovation by Co-Operation, Co-Creation and Community Building“
Project "Start-up Modul" (PDF in German)
Project "Twin Entrepreneurs"