DI Dr. Beatrix Wepner
Function
Scientist
Center
Innovation Systems & Policy
Competence Unit
Innovation Systems & Policy
Address
Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna
Career
Field: Innovation Dynamics and Modelling
Main Research: Technology Monitoring
Experience:
DI Dr. Beatrix Wepner has joined the AIT in 2010 as scientist and technology manager. Her work areas at AIT are monitoring and detecting emerging issues and emerging technologies, investigating data and evaluating expert opiniond in workshops and interviews so that emerging trends can be identified. Furthermore she is responsible for quality management at the department, linking her education in life sciences and her experience from the previous placements. She brings extensive experience in the field of cluster management from her previous engagements at ecoplus, Lower Austrian Business Agency, and at ofi Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology, where she worked as a scientist and head of the institute for packaging and later for medical devices.
- 1997-1999: Tutor
University for Agricultural Sciences Vienna; Institute for Tood Technology / Austria - 1999-2006: Scientist and Team Leader
ofi-Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology, Packaging Institute and Institute for Medical Devices / Austria - 2006-2010: Project Management of Lower Austrian Food Initiative (Food Cluster)
ecoplus. NÖ Wirtschaftsagentur / Austria - 2010-now: Scientist & Quality Management
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Center for Innovation Systems & Policy / Austria
Publications
- Flagellin gene and protein variation amongst clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Author(s): C Winstanley · M A Coulson · B Wepner · J. A. W. Morgan · C A Hart
Journal: Microbiology, 142 (1996) - Citrate Starch — Application as Resistant Starch in Different Food Systems
Author(s): Beatrix Wepner · Emmerich Berghofer · Ella Miesenberger · Karl Tiefenbacher · Perry N. K. Ng
Journal: Starch - Stärke (1999) - Determination of microbial contamination of plastic cups for dairy products and utilization of electron beam treatment for sterilization
Author(s): M Tacker · C Hametner · B Wepner
Journal: Food Additives and Contaminants (2002) - Drivers, trends and scenarios for the future of health in Europe. Impressions from the FRESHER project
Author(s): S. Giesecke, B. Wepner
Journal: European Journal of Futures Research, 6 (2018) ; 38 - 48
- all chapters;
Praxishandbuch für Kunststoffverpackungen
Author(s): Bergmair, J.; Washüttl, M. Wepner, B.
Publisher: Behr´s Verlag; 2012; 978-3-89947-907-2
Series: ; 2. Auflage
- Identification of emerging technologies with security implications: Experience and results from the ETCETERA project
Author(s): Wepner, B.; G. Huppertz
Conference PACITA 2013 , Prague - Towards a Better Understanding of Cyber Civic Resilience (CCR)
Author(s): Wepner, B., Wester, M.
Further Information
- Publications AIT publications database