MicroTech Industry | Set up a business in Switzerland

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">While enjoying a leading position in industry as well as in the services sector, Western Switzerland has become a hub of world renown for unequaled expertise in microtechnology.</font></p>     <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_6"></a>Academic excellence without equal</font></b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2">With a long tradition of educational excellence, the region attracts many foreign students to its universities and colleges, business and engineering schools, and to its international private schools with English curricula. Lausanne is host to the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and the acclaimed International Institute for Management Development (IMD) while Neuchâtel is home to the renowned Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology(CSEM). Cradle of the World Wide Web and site of the world’s largest particle physics center, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) is based in nearby Geneva.</font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_7"></a>Unsurpassed quality of life</font></b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif">Providing appealing places in which to work and live, western Switzerland attracts many foreign companies and families and is home to a strong international community. While French is the region’s official language, English is widely spoken.</font></span></font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_13"></a>Valuable assistance</font></b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Economic development offices help you locate here and ramp up your business. Their representatives provide you with a comprehensive package of services to allow you to do business in western Switzerland. They assist you with business plan development, tax exemptions and other financial incentives, research and development grants, investment and job training assistance, financial and business partnerships, work and residency permits, office space, industrial land, scientific parks, financial institutions and venture capital funds, business and social contacts, housing, schools, transportation, healthcare services. Designed to serve as a one-stop clearing house, economic development offices provide their services at no charge.</font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_14"></a>In partnership with you</font></b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">With tax incentives and work permits often viewed as major issues of interest to new businesses, the economic development offices focus on these key elements while assisting you in every step you undertake to get your company and family established in western Switzerland. They consider themselves part of your team : your problems are also theirs and your success is theirs as well.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">We look forward to working with you and invite you to visit western Switzerland to see for yourself all we have to offer.</font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_8"></a>General information about Western Switzerland :</font></b></font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0">  <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/swiss.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Switzerland and western Switzerland in key figures</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/facts.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Facts, figures & advantages of Switzerland and western Switzerland (profile of the economy, quality of living, productivity, available property and construction, attractive land and buildings)</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/incentives.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Advantages & incentives of Western Switzerland (taxation, financial assistance, work and residency permits)</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/publications.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Publications</font></a><br> </td> </tr>  </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_9"></a>For more information :</font></b></font></p> <font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.dews.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">DEWS - Development Economic Western Switzerland :</font></a></font><br>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0">  <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/contact.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Worldwide contacts</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/leaders.php" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Project leaders</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.dews.com/press.php?lg=en" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Press releases</font></a><br> </td> </tr>  </tbody> </table>  <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="justify"> </p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px" align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font color="#010066"><a name="section_10"></a>Cantonal Economic Promotion Offices :</font></b></font></p>  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0">  <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.invest-switzerland-vaud.ch/en/00.asp" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Vaud</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://promeco.ne.ch/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Neuchâtel</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.geneva.ch/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Geneva</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.jura.ch/eco/fr/portail/index.php" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Jura</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.berninvest.com/2260/2342.asp" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Bern</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.theark.ch/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Valais</font></a><br> </td> </tr>   <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="9" height="16"><font face="Arial" color="#010066" size="2">•</font></td> <td height="16"><a href="http://www.promfr.ch/en/1024/index.php" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">Economic promotion office - State of Fribourg</font></a><br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body>