aws guarantee offers securities/collateral that your bank requires from you when granting a loan – and thus increase your chance of obtaining the loan.

With the aws erp-Loan we enable investments in setting up a company (in start-up), modernization, growth and innovation through (by means of) (interest-rate) favourable loans (soft loans) with fixed interest rates, flexible loan periods (flexible terms) and grace periods.

The objective of the business promotion programme is economically sustainable as well as competitive, economically independent, innovative and technology-driven or impact-driven companies with distinctive research and development activities and the transfer of university and non-university research findings into competitive products, procedures or services. Overall, the attractiveness and thereby the number of company start-ups should be increased in the Deep Tech and High-Tech area and in the Impact area, and the situation of start-ups in the area of Intellectual Property improved. Consultancy services of aws on founding, growth and innovation protection make an important contribution to this.

With aws Innovation Protection, we support you in identifying your important intellectual property (IP), strategically securing it, defending it and making optimal use of it - especially in the area of green tech. An innovation protection strategy tailored to your business model forms the basis for creating and securing your competitive position.
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With aws equity we support Austrian start-ups with venture capital - with the common goal to bring the idea to market maturity.

With the aws digitalization we enable digital change, implementation of advanced tools and data-integration by the means of grants.

With aws Energy & Climate we help smaller and medium-sized companies to introduce an energy management system and build up energy know-how.

With aws growth investment we support companies realizing growth an innovation projects with the aim of strengthening their market position.

With aws Processing of Agricultural Products we support investments of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as agricultural farms and cooperations in innovation, sustainability, quality or efficiency in the sector of processing and marketing of agricultural products.

With the aws Starting a business in rural areas, we support small technologically innovative enterprises that create economic added value in the region – in line with the regional or state strategy.