{"id":21931,"date":"2026-02-16T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/?p=21931"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:28:28","slug":"innovation-award-salzburg-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/innovation-award-salzburg-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-off for the Salzburg Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Salzburg Innovation Award will launch for the first time in 2026. Presented by Innovation Salzburg and the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce, the award highlights innovative companies. From <strong>16 February to 15 March<\/strong>, <strong>all Salzburg-based businesses may submit applications<\/strong> whose <strong>projects have already been successfully implemented on the market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions will be evaluated by a distinguished expert jury from business and academia based on degree of innovation, strength of implementation, and future potential. The award winners will be nominated as Salzburg\u2019s representatives for the Austrian State Prize for Innovation. The award complements the WIKARUS \u2013 Salzburg Business Award, which will be presented biennially in the future, thereby ensuring continuous visibility for Salzburg\u2019s innovations at the national level. \u201cWe want not only to drive innovation forward, but also to give it a stage,\u201d says Walter Haas, Managing Director of Innovation Salzburg.<\/p>\n<p>Submitting an application for the Innovation Award does <em>not<\/em> exclude submission for the WIKARUS.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/einreichformular-innovationspreis-innosbg-wks-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Application Form Innovation Award 2026 (German)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WIKARUS \u2013 Salzburg Business Award will be presented every two years in the future. In the intervening years, the Salzburg Innovation Award will be announced, launching for the first time in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unternehmen-en","category-wir-ueber-uns-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21941,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions\/21941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovation-salzburg.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}