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Flexdrill Develops Drilling System to Reduce Costs of Geothermal Heat Pumps
Geothermal heat pumps are widely regarded as an efficient solution for heating and cooling. However, adoption in Austria remains limited. Currently, they account for around 14% of installed heat pump systems, with high installation costs (particularly drilling!) being a key barrier. One startup working on this challenge is Flexdrill, a Vienna-based company supported in its
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Unternehmen und Startups: Wie Zusammenarbeit echte Innovationskraft schafft
Technologien, Märkte und Kundenbedürfnisse verändern sich schneller den je. So schnell, dass Wettbewerber in kürzester Zeit ganze Branchen umkrempeln können. Wer nicht kontinuierlich neue Lösungen entwickelt, verliert Differenzierung, Margen und im Extremfall seine Existenzberechtigung im Markt. Innovationskraft ist in Zeiten wie diesen also essenziell. Und sie ist keine Initiative, sondern eine Führungsaufgabe. Eine der wirkungsvollsten
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International Expansion for Startups
Why Entering a New Market Is Like a Second Founding In strategy decks, international expansion often appears as the logical next step. Product validated. Revenue growing. Home market stable. So let’s scale.In reality, expansion is not a rollout. It is a second founding under different conditions. Underestimate that, and you will pay twice. Once
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Why In-House R&D Alone Is No Longer Enough in Technology-Intensive Industries
And Why the Strongest Companies Combine It with Startup Collaboration In technology-intensive industries, in-house R&D has never been optional. It protects intellectual property, enables system integration, ensures reliability, and turns complex technologies into scalable products. Many of today’s market leaders like Bosch and Siemens exist because they invested in R&D long before returns
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From the Lab to Global Leadership: The Journey of Lithoz in Ceramic 3D Printing
In the world of academia, many groundbreaking research results unfortunately never leave the university „drawer“. Lithoz, a spin-off from the TU Wien, serves as a powerful counter-example, having evolved into a „Hidden Champion“ and global market leader in the field of 3D printing for high-performance ceramics. From Dissertation to Innovation The story began
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