Facts & Figures of the Business Agency of Lower Austria
For over 50 years, in our role as the Business Agency of Lower Austria, we have been a reliable partner of people in business as well as investors and initiators of regional and international projects. We act as an essential interface between business, politics, and science. Become a part of this experience!
People are at the heart
An excellent team is a key factor to the success of any business.
"From my own experience I can say: when you show your employees genuine respect and appreciation, you are rewarded many times over in the form of loyalty, dedication, commitment and motivation. It’s about creating a constructive work environment in which everyone has the opportunity for development. We take our employees’ ideas for innovation and their suggestions for development seriously. We’re one big team where collaboration and respect are lived out every day."Helmut Miernicki, ecoplus Chief Executive
ecoplus in Numbers
Our Company History
Follow the milestones of the ecoplus success story from 1962 till today.
Company History (accessible) (.pdf)
- First business settlement in the business park IZ NÖ-Süd
- Development of the IZ NÖ-Süd as the first business park in Lower Austria
- Isovolta becomes the first business settlement at the IZ NÖ-Süd
- Founding the state subsidiary NÖRBS
- NÖRBS = Lower Austrian Limited Company for Regional Planning, Business Settlement, and Structural Improvements (GmbH)
- Merging NÖRBS with the IZ NÖ-Süd GmbH to create ecoplus Business Settlement and Development, limited company (GmbH)
- Launching the regional development program
- Renamed to ecoplus Business Settlement and Regionalization in Lower Austria, limited company (GmbH)
- Development of additional business parks
- Development of research and technology centers throughout Lower Austria
- Launching of various clusters and one initiative
2001: Green Building Cluster of Lower Austria
2005: Plastics-Cluster in Lower Austria
2006: Food Cluster of Lower Austria
2010: Mechatronics-Cluster in Lower Austria
2010: e-mobility - Launch of the Technopol Program
Technopol program with Technopol offices in Wiener Neustadt, Krems, Tulln und Wieselburg.
- Opening of the first international offices abroad
ecoplus International launched its international presence in Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest
- Moving headquarters to St. Pölten
Moved our head offices from the location on “Am Lugeck” in Vienna to the newly constructed passive building Wirtschaftszentrum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten and celebration of a grand opening on February 20, 2008.
- Opening TFZ Wieselburg-Land
Ceremonial opening of the first construction stage of the Technology- and Research Center Wieselburg-Land, in 2013 the extension of the TFZ took place and since 2014 Wieselburg is also a technopol location.
- The EU honors Lower Austria’s Fiberglass Model
With the European Broadband Award the European Commission honors outstanding broadband internet projects. Lower Austria was an enormous hit at the awards with its nöGIG project.
- European Enterprise Promotion Award 2017 goes to Lower Austria
The EEPA (European Enterprise Promotion Award) was presented to ecoplus International in the category "Promotion of the internationalisation of economic activity".
- Local clusters are worth gold
Both cross-border state clusters for plastics and for mechatronics as well as the two solely Lower Austrian clusters for Green Building and for Food received the European quality seal for “European Cluster Excellence” for the third time in recognition of their excellent cluster management!
- Digitalization & House of Digitalization
Development of five digital hubs and an inter-institutional and comprehensive Lower Austrian competence and collaboration network as well as the preliminary work on the „Virtual House“ of digitalization
Important links
- accent - Gründerservice GmbH
- Access Industrial Park
- NÖ Regional
- Ennshafen
- House of Digitalization
- IN - Industrie Niederösterreich
- Industriellenvereinigung, Landesgruppe Niederösterreich
- net for future
- NÖG Niederösterreichische Grenzlandförderungsgesellschaft
- NÖ Landesregierung (Lower Austrian Provincial Government)
- Niederösterreich Werbung (Lower Austrian Tourist Office)
- NÖBEG (Lower Austrian Institutions for Financing and Loan Guaranties)
- NÖ Glasfaserinfrastrukturges. m.b.H
- NÖ.Regional.GmbH
- Raumordnung in Niederösterreich
- riz up Niederösterreichs Gründeragentur Ges.m.b.H. (The Start-up Agency of Lower Austria)
- standortkompass.at – platform for business settlements in Lower Austria
- tecnet equity
- TFZ Wiener Neustadt (Technology and Research Center Wiener Neustadt)
- TFZ Tulln (Technology and Research Center Tulln)
- Tourismusförderung (WST3)
- WIFI NÖ
- Wirtschaftskammer NÖ (Economic Chamber Lower Austria)
- AMS - Arbeitsmarktservice Niederösterreich (Public Employment Service)
- ABA - Invest in Austria
- AWS - Austria Wirtschaftsservice
- Förderportal.at
- Leitbetriebe Austria (Leading Companies Austria)
- Business Upper Austria
- Österr. Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency)
- Österreichisches Institut für Raumplanung (ÖIR) (Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning)
- Vienna Region Marketing GmbH
- Wirtschaftsagentur Wien (Vienna Business Agency)
- Wirtschaftsservice Burgenland AG