Switzerland Innovation creates a platform that allows universities and innovative companies to collaborate and use their research results for the development of marketable products and services; Provides breeding grounds for innovations; and strengthens Switzerland as one of the most innovative countries in the world.
Switzerland Innovation has the following objectives:
Realizing successful R&D collaborations between private companies, Swiss universities, and other research partners; Generating domestic and foreign R&D investment; Localizing domestic and foreign companies and research partners that create jobs and develop new marketable products, services, and processes; Creating a platform to accelerate the development of research results into marketable solutions; Creating attractive conditions for research groups and start-ups as catalysts for the localization of established companies; Securing our attractiveness and competitiveness through clear competence profiles at the sites as well as excellent conditions and services for our customers.
The Swiss Innovation Park Foundation is the national organizing institution of Switzerland Innovation, and provides services to the various sites. It deals with those issues that need to be approached from a foundation-wide perspective, thus covering all sites.
The foundation takes on the following tasks:
The international positioning and marketing of Switzerland Innovation on the basis of attractive offers that are defined by the sites using uniform criteria; Supporting the sites with financing solutions, both through the use of federal guarantees and by creating financial instruments in collaboration with the financial industry; Coordinating and networking the sites and ensuring efficient cooperation with the federal authorities while providing a coherent umbrella brand; Ensuring uniform quality standards at the sites on the basis of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Economic Affairs (VDK) criteria catalog and it