The Knowledge Transfer Centre West (WTZ West) is Western Austria’s biggest competence centre for academic knowledge and technology transfer. The WTZ West connects six universities and four universities of applied sciences in a professional network with the aim of generating new knowledge horizons, combining potentials and putting research at the forefront. The Knowledge Transfer Centre West is funded by the austria wirtschaftsservice aws with the financial means of the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Innovation.