It aims to facilitate the transfer of academic research into commercial applications, thus implementing an innovation pipeline from universities into markets.

To this end, SAT cooperates with both universities and other academic institutions, as well as innovative companies.

[1] During the years 2004 and 2005 SAT accompanied the development of a mobile content download platform by 3united and Ericsson as a research partner concerning personalization.

From 2006 to 2008 SAT guided research activities concerning semantic systems and recommender systems for Verisign Communications GmbH, the Viennese branch of VeriSign.

With its flagship project Easyrec, an open source recommender engine, SAT launched an incubator for spreading the ideas and usage of personalization in early 2010.