The full scientific report and the practitioner report, plus six per-chapter PDFs.
The flagship: cover, six chapters with the full evidence base, and a consolidated methodology section. 70 pages, written for policymakers, researchers, and analysts who want the full picture.
The action-oriented companion: six findings, recommendations by firm size, leadership imperatives, policy actions, and a 2030 target sheet. 34 pages, written for company leaders and decision-makers who need the report in one sitting.
Each chapter as a standalone PDF, sharing the same design. Ideal for circulating a single dimension to a stakeholder.
The question is no longer whether Austria has AI talent. It is whether the base is growing fast enough, retaining enough, and diffusing broadly enough.
A cliff, not a slope. The pipeline enters near-balanced and collapses upward — at +0.30pp/yr, parity is 50 years away.
82 % of AI careers stay in Austria — split between same-firm retention and domestic moves. The real story is frontier leakage: 17 % of Build, 23 % of NLP/GenAI, 44 % gone within twelve months.
Top-10 on quality. Mid-pack on quantity. Second-slowest salary growth in Western Europe. The gap is horizontal, not vertical.
Not a graduate cohort, a mid-career professional class. A 60 % Analyst+Manager backbone — and a 6 % entry-level floor with a hidden pay inversion at the top.
Vienna alone holds 60% of Austria's AI workforce. Vienna–Graz–Linz together over 70%. Beyond the corridor, AI thins fast.