ACR – Austrian Cooperative Research is a network of private research institutes offering applied R&D for companies. Our demand-oriented services are tailored to meet the needs of SMEs, in order to support their innovation efforts, to provide the necessary know-how and to strengthen their competitiveness. In addition to R&D, ACR-institutes offer testing, inspection and certification as well as technology and knowledge transfer. They perform more than two-thirds of their services for SMEs.