The Ministry's concern is with the wellbeing of Austria's citizens nationwide and with making an active contribution to European integration. The work is geared to developing Austria in a sustainable manner, making the country a desirable location and improving the quality of life of its citizens. To that end the interest lies in securing conditions in which a fair balance of interests in society can be achieved in the areas of communications and mobility and additionally promote innovation and technology.

CURE's mission is to develop innovative and usage oriented systems utilizing methodological and qualitative usability, usability engineering and user experience knowledge. Leading edge research activities as well as intensive industrial experience enable us to provide added value for users, producers and principals.

FTW is a nationally leading and internationally acclaimed center for research and development of technologies for future communication systems.

FTW concentrates on research and development of theories, algorithms and processes for the intelligent management of future communication systems under real-time conditions. FTW closely cooperates with partners from both academia and industry, thereby strengthening and accelerating the process of academic discovery for applications in industry. The scientific activities of FTW focus on four particular fields: (i) Signal & Information Processing (ii) Communication Networks (iii) Networked Services and (iv) User-Centered Interaction.

Established in 1998, FTW is supported and further developed as a K1-center by the Austrian Government and the City of Vienna within the competence center programme COMET.

The Know-Center is Austria's competence center for knowledge management and perceives itself as a point of origin of IT innovations at the interface between science and industry. Since its establishment in 2001, the Know-Center has been developing highly innovative IT solutions for knowledge management. Its specialist areas of excellence are:

* Conceptual design and implementation of intelligent IT services for knowledge work and learning in organizations and communities (e.g. recommending knowledge resources in the work context)
* Conceptual design and implementation of methods for the discovery and content based analysis of knowledge in complex knowledge spaces (e.g. search based on the similarity of documents)

The Know-Center is partner of Austria's Competence Center Program COMET.

Since 1997 milestone consultancy gmbh works in the area of the Digital Economy at the crossing of supply and demand, private and public institutions, as well as national and international developments.

In the area of ICT milestone offers services in (1) design and management of communities, platforms and networks, (2) design and management of programmes and projects, (3) policy consulting, (4) studies and publications.

„Neurovation“ is a made-up word of the terms „NEUROscience“ and „InnoVATION“. It signifies what we do: Supporting and fostering the creative thinking processes in the brain via web tools and an online platform.
Neurovation is a start-up company founded in 2007 after the successful completion of an interdisciplinary research project undertaken together with brain researchers, innovation and knowledge management experts, usability designers and web developers.



The web platform Neurovation (www.neurovation.net) including the web tools developed by Neurovation GmbH is a virtual creativity environment for supporting people in their creative process and in managing/storing their idea projects. User-generated content is a key element: There are tools available to get inspired, there is an idea lab with a drawing tool for visualising, describing and saving one’s ideas and there is a community area where users can participate in ideas competitions of various organisations. For organisations calling for ideas this platform is a new way for following the so called “open innovation” approach.

The Future of Manufacturing
Our competence and experience helps businesses to boost their productivity and flexibility, while at the same time reducing costs and risks. We develop and optimise industrial production processes and help companies avoid bad decisions, thus reducing planning overhead.

We design the future of manufacturing: precision and micro-assembly, automation down to a batch size of 1, industrial image processing, elimination of noise and vibration – to name just a few examples. On top of this, PROFACTOR can draw on a wealth of know-how in researching and the development of alternative power systems, process development for functional surfaces, and the production of micro and nanostructures.

Austria’s no. 1 in applied manufacturing research
In 10 years the PROFACTOR Group has grown from a 4-person research team to Austria’s no. 1 in applied production research. More than 110 employees at our facilities develop new technologies and solutions for manufacturing businesses. Our reference list includes a wide range of companies from global players to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises such as TRUMPF, Siemens VAI, BMW Motoren GmbH, Kaba GmbH, ANGER MACHINING GmbH, IH TECH or "inet"-logistics.

PROFACTOR's research is supported by the EU, the federal government, the state of Upper Austria, and the town of Steyr.

Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft is the non-profit research organisation of the State of Salzburg. It is located within the grounds of Salzburg Techno-Z, one of Europe's largest information technology parks.

Salzburg Research conducts applied research in the areas of information and communication technologies with a focus on creating and managing digital content. We presently employ 55 researchers across our application areas of Digital Media, eCulture, eTourism and EduMedia.

Salzburg Research offers a combination of strategic and practical solutions in technology and social development. Our mix of lead international projects, national competence centres, Pan European pilot studies and local consulting contracts, provides a dynamic flow of innovation and knowledge between our regional, national and international clients and partners. Our clients and partners include private companies, national and international technology leaders and public bodies such as governments, public administration, libraries and other educational and social institutions.

Secure Business Austria is an industrial research center for IT-Security founded by the Vienna University of Technology, Graz University of Technology and University of Vienna. In our second research phase from 2010 to 2017, the Vienna University of Economics and Business has joined the center as a fourth full academic partner.

STI International is organized as a collaborative association of interested scientific, industrial and governmental parties that share a common vision. STI International was kicked off in January 2007 in Berlin. STI international sets up its own research infrastructure and implements public and internal services that support the individual partner organizations in their research collaboration, standardization, dissemination and exploitation activities. STI International is active on an international level.