COMET Center

The path from ingenious research ideas to commercial success stories is not always easy and often financially confusing. As a COMET center, the Know Center can use funding to minimize the financial risk in application-oriented research projects. We offer the free COMET partnership to companies that want to venture breakthrough innovation based on the latest results in trusted AI and data.

As a partner, you benefit via access to our internationally renowned science experts. Together with them, you will develop application-oriented research projects up to the prototype, which will secure your entrepreneurial competitive advantage.

The COMET competence centers enable companies to collaborate with research partners, thereby permitting a direct transfer of new knowledge into marketable products, services, and processes. They conduct research in areas that are strategically important for the economy. They provide research impetus, initiate innovations and develop solutions for the key topics of the future: digitization & ICT, energy, environment, life sciences, mobility, and materials & production.

As a leading European research center for Data-driven Business and Artificial Intelligence (AI), we have our finger directly on the pulse of time to detect trends, develop the latest technologies and introduce them into innovation processes. With >60 high-ranking publications per year, we contribute significantly to Austria as a research location. In terms of EU funds raised, we are number 1 of all K1 COMET centers (number 3 of all COMET centers). We are the only Austrian center to bear the EU iSpace Label in Gold (BDVA) and combine all technical, data and business-oriented competencies that are essential for the successful implementation of data-driven business:

• Data Management for AI
• Data Privacy for AI
• Methods & Algorithms for AI
• Human-AI Interaction
• Fair AI
• Digital Transformation Design

The Know-Center would like to thank for the financial support within the COMET program. This program is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministries for Climate Policy, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and for Labor and Economy (BMAW), represented by Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG), Steirische Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (SFG) and the Province of Styria, Wirtschaftsagentur Vienna and Standortagentur Tyrol GmbH.