Profile

Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in Rhode Island that is dedicated to the advancement of applied research. Fraunhofer USA was founded in 1994 to conduct applied R & D for customers from industry and state governments and the federal government in the United States. 

Working closely with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest application-oriented research and development organization, Fraunhofer USA can offer both domestic and international resources to enhance its portfolio of R & D services. Through a vast global cooperation network, we are well positioned to be a vital part in overcoming regional and global challenges, to uncover potential research areas and support economic development. In an international competitive environment, together with an extensive network of Fraunhofer institutes in Germany and strategic partners, we strive to strengthen transatlantic collaboration in education, applied research and innovation.  

Mission

Fraunhofer USA offers customized, advanced technology research, development and deployment. Fraunhofer USA shall serve market-driven technology needs; promote international cooperation in business; establish strategic alliances with industry, government and academic partners.

Vision

Fraunhofer USA, like its founder and funding partner Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, is a national and international leader of applied research. As an innovation driver, we lead strategic initiatives to master future challenges and thus achieve technological breakthroughs.

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Fraunhofer USA develops required innovations and core competences to address technological, commercial, and social imperatives of our time. 

The topics of these projects are a result of two fundamental driving forces – industry and its technology-pull roadmap, and the government and its technology push-roadmap. These key innovations are then deployed in the U.S. R&D market where Fraunhofer USA engages with industry clients or the public sector in contract R&D projects as well as public-private partnerships (3P) for technology transfer. As a result of this activity, Fraunhofer USA helps the industry sector to de-risk their technology development investments, improve time-to market, enhance their competitiveness while reducing capital and operational expense, and improve quality and quantity of the product, enabling scalability and transferability of a process, reducing technology development and device integration costs. 

The advantages for the public sector are access to a team of experienced, professional, inter-disciplinary researchers and scientists able to provide scalable and transferable solutions, and access to researchers with both an academic and industrial mindset and experience.