To promote the national and international visibility and interconnectedness of research, education and business, Technopol Wiener Neustadt is implementing the SMART FRAME project (short for "smart framework for small and medium-sized businesses focused on modern industrial technologies").

This publicly funded project has the following aims:
a) SMART knowledge hubs: encourage more cooperation among networked intermediary facilities, industry and research;

b) SMART RTD cooperation: establish a transnational platform for small and medium-sized businesses in the area of RTD (research and technological development) and initiate projects in the five main thematic areas materials, surfaces, sensors, processes and integration;

c) SMART settlement: identify and upgrade the package of services and benefits offered by R&D facilities such as research centers to companies in order to make the business location more attractive, and to best exploit potential synergistic effects;

d) SMART spin-offs: analyze the prevailing framework conditions for spin-offs from R&D facilities in light of cooperation between founding teams and employers, and subsequently create and communicate sustainable approaches for "win-win strategies" in this area.