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Western Switzerland witnesses a marked increase in new high-tech companies. To host and support these start-ups, a number of infrastructure and professional bodies have emerged to finance, manage and advise new firms, often in exchange for equity shares. Several well-established technological parks are funded in part or in whole through public resources. These technological parks nurture and foster today’s fledgling businesses that will become tomorrow’s economic giants.
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Technological parks & incubators providing office space and laboratories :
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The Scientific and Technological Park of Ecublens (PSE) offers new and established small businesses an environment of unsurpassed scientific cooperation focused on early stage research and technology development. Located on the campus of the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and operated by the publicly funded PSE Foundation, the PSE provides ready access to expertise from the EPFL, the University of Lausanne (UNIL), and the Vaud University Hospital (CHUV). They are more than 100 companies established in the PSE.
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Y-Parc in Yverdon is a scientific and technological park designed to support high-tech businesses in the secondary stage of commercial application and marketing of new technology. The 50-ha facility includes a Business and Innovation Centre accommodating close to 80 companies involved in microtechnology, microelectronics, biotechnology and medical technologies.
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Neode - The Scientific and Technological Park of Neuchâtel - offers an infrastructure and temporary support aimed at helping projects and companies involved in or directly benefiting from high-tech research to get off the ground. Neode helps these companies to become autonomous, and will accompany them up to that point. The infrastructure and help offered by Neode comprises : adequate premises, managerial coaching, financial assistance, a range of services. Neode makes available those infrastructures and services which enable industrial R&D teams collaborating with partner Institutes and Colleges, as well as mixed research teams, to set themselves up on its site.
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Specialised consulting centres in high tech technologies :
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Alliance is a network of technology transfer offices dedicated to improve the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized firms. By facilitating research & development projects between industrial and academic partners, Alliance plays a key role in making the expertise of all research centers in western Switzerland accessible to industrial companies in the region. Organising technology application conferences and advising on national and international research opportunities, Alliance focuses on collaborative projects between potential partners to develop new technologies or products. |
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The Centre for Technology Transfer (CETT) of the Engineering and Management University of the State of Vaud facilitates contacts, collaboration, and project management between innovative companies and the university. CETT offers technology transfer, conducts special tests, and develops prototypes in the areas of materials, energy, mechanics, microtechnology, electronics and microelectronics. CETT also organises seminars and offers advanced courses in applied engineering. |
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