Facts & Figures

Insights - the Tyrol as a center of technological innovation

Background

• 746,153 Inhabitants (January 2017); Source: Statistics Austria
• 1 of 9 provinces of Austria, located in Western Austria
• 12,648 km² total area
• 1,503 km² area of settlement absolute resp. 11.89 %, Source: Statistics Austria, GAW
• 18 km² of fully completed and well equipped business- and industrial area, Source: Location Agency Tirol

Economic Data

• 43,776 companies are members of Tyrol Economic Chamber; Source: Austrian Economic Chamber
• 2,841 new company foundations in 2017; Source: Austrian Economic Chamber
• Occupation rate 2016 up 1.8 % on the previous year; Source: Statistics Austria , UniCredit Bank Austria Economics & Market Analysis Austria
• over 400,000 employed persons in 2016; Source: Austrian Economic Chamber
• € 32,500 million regional gross value in 2016; Source: Statistics Austria
• Gross regional product per capita in 2016:
  € 43,700 (cp. Austrian average € 39,400); Source: Austrian Economic Chamber
• Growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 2017 (prognosis): 2.4 % in Tirol, highest growth among Austria’s nine federal states together with Vorarlberg; cp. Austria 1.8 %; Source: UniCredit Bank Austria AG
• Export quota 2016 (prognosis): 37.9 %; Source: Statistics Austria , UniCredit Bank Austria Economics & Market Analysis Austria
• Overnight Stays: 47.5 million in 2016; this is over 30 % of all overnight stays in Austria.

Research and Development (R&D) Data

• Research rate or expenditures on R&D as percentage of GDP in 2015:
  3.14 %  (cp. Austria 3.02%; cp. EU-28 2.03%); Source: Statistics Austria
• Change in research expenditure from 2013 - 2015: + 7 %
• Total expenditures on R&D in Tirol during 2015:  
  € 975 million – 9.3 % of Austria´s expenditures; Source: Statistics Austria
• Company expenditures on R&D in Tirol during 2015:
  € 619 million – 8.33 % of Austria´s expenditures by the business enterprise sector
• Expenditures on R&D in Tirol per capita 2015:
  € 1,325; third position behind Vienna and Styria; Source: Statistics Austria
• Financing of R&D-expenditures in Tirol during 2015:
  company sector 48.9 % (€ 477 million), public sector 38 % (€ 371 million),  foreign countries including international organisations 11.2 % (€ 109.6 million), European Union 1.3 % (€ 12.4 million), private non-commercial sector 0.5 % (€ 5 million)
• R&D-employees (Full Time Equivalents) in total in Tirol in 2015:
  5,724;  + 4.6 % compared to 2013
• 146 issued patents and utility models by IPC in year 2016; Source: Austrian Patent Office, GAW.

University R&D Bodies

• University Innsbruck
• Medical University Innsbruck
• UMIT, private university for health sciences, medical informatic and technics
• Management Center Innsbruck (MCI)
• University of Applied Sciences Kufstein
• University of Applied Sciences Tyrol (Health), Innsbruck
   

For further information see our Data and Facts-Sheet.