Austrian Cooperative Research
The Association of Cooperative Research Institutions of the Austrian Economy - AUSTRIAN COOPERATIVE RESEARCH (abbreviation ACR) is an Austrian research network whose primary goal is to improve the competitiveness of domestic SMEs with innovations. The seat of the association is Vienna in the House of Research (1090 Vienna). In 2013, the ACR network generated total sales of 56.2 million euros.
Members are non-university research institutes. As innovation companions and research experts for SMEs, the 19 ACR institutes offer business-related R&D services, technology transfer, funding advice and high-quality testing and measuring. The ACR also forms the link to international institutions such as EARTO
The association was founded in 1954 as an association of the cooperative research institutes of the commercial economy in Austria . In 1980 the association changed its name to the Association of Cooperative Research Institutes of the Austrian Economy (VKF). In 1992 the association was given its current name.
Members
The members consist of 19 ordinary, extraordinary and associated members.
Ordinary members
- Austria Solar Innovation Center (ASiC), Wels
- Building Technology Institute Linz (BTI), Linz
- Research Society for Living, Building and Planning (FGW), Vienna
- Güssing Energy Technologies (GET), Güssing
- Holzforschung Austria (HFA), Vienna
- BVS Holding GmbH, Linz
- KMU Research Austria (KMFA), Vienna
- Food Research Institute (LVA), Vienna
- OFI, Vienna
- Austrian Foundry Institute (ÖGI), Leoben
- Austrian Institute for Applied Telecommunications (ÖIAT), Vienna
- Central Welding Agency (SZA), Vienna
- Research institute for grain processing - Austrian Mill Association (VG), Vienna
- Austrian Tiled Stove Association (KOV), Vienna
- Association of the Austrian Cement Industry (VÖZ), Vienna
- Center for Electron Microscopy Graz (ZFE), Graz
- IBO - Austrian Institute for Building Biology and Ecology, Vienna
- Industrial Science Institute (IWI), Vienna
- V-Research, Dornbirn
Associate members
- AVL List (AVL), Graz
- Society for the testing of electronic industrial products GmbH (CTI), Vienna
- Research Institute for Technical Physics (FTPH), Niederfladnitz
- LVA GmbH, Vienna
- Stenum management consultancy and research company for environmental issues mbh, Graz
- TECHNOSERT ELECTRONIC GMBH
- TIZ Landl Grieskirchen GmbH
- Austrian Society for Sustainable Real Estate Management (ÖGNI), Linz
- researchTUb, Vienna
- KMU Akademie & Management AG, Linz
- V-trion textile research GmbH, Hohenems
Associate members
R&D focus
ACR institutes are active in the following areas of business:
- Innovation & Competitiveness
- Sustainable Building
- Environmental technology & renewable energies
- Products, processes, materials
- Food quality & safety