Austin, Pock + Partners is a consulting company which specialises in strategic development and the growth of companies and organisations in technological and knowledge-based sectors. Their main objective is to work for companies that are developing new products, investing in research and development and tackling new, strategic technology projects. One of the objectives is also providing help to government departments and universities to strengthen and intensify their research and development, implement their R&D results efficiently and develop strategic products.

The Austrian Foundry Research Institute is a non profit research organisation outside the university structure and is accredited for 45 testing methods according to EN ISO/IEC 17025. It provides a know-how basis from simulations of castings, to casting technologies and the application of castings.

Economic park for start-ups is an innovative impulse center with a focus on production-related services. This is a provider, "equipped" with modern building with approximately 2,100 m² of rentable space where company founders and established companies can use the laboratory and warehouse as well. 

The Energy and Innovation Centre of Weiz is an innovative and trendsetting business centre. Here, 25 to 30 entrepreneurs and organisations find attractive office and storage rooms, which are conceived after the latest cognitions and get professional support from the management of W.E.I.Z.

The Materials Cluster Styria GmbH combines all Styrian companies, institutions and research facilities along the entire value chain of the materials industry. It represents a network of companies allong the whole value chain: starting with raw materials production companies onwards through development to the companies that produce finished products and services.

Further information about this institution can be found at: www.materialscluster.at/

The Styrian Women’s Business Centre is an initiative of the non-profit association “Deeds not Words” which is concerned about the improvement of the situation of women in business and employment by means of appropriate measures. It is the declared target of the Women’s Business Centre to support female entrepreneurship.

University of Leoben sees itself with its core competencies along the “added value chain” from the extraction of raw materials and their preparation, production processes, materials development, manufacturing, building components/plants up to recycling and deposition. It considers its main task for the future to be the establishment of sustainability in this “added value chain”.