News Jan 29, 2019 Basilea and Roche join forces to fight cancer Basilea and Roche, two Basel-based pharmaceutical companies, have entered into a collaboration. Drugs from the two companies will be used in comb...
News Jan 28, 2019 Tessin joins Greater Zurich Area The canton of Ticino has become a member of the Foundation “Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing”. The southern canton will strengthen the Zuric...
News Jan 28, 2019 A blockchain center of excellence in Geneva With the upcoming launch of a blockchain center of excellence focused on fintech, Geneva joins Wisekey’s already active poles in India, Mauritius...
News Jan 25, 2019 Computers recognise false alarms in intensive care Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have applied machine learning in intensive care units to distinguish between f...
News Jan 24, 2019 Autonomous air taxi takes off with Lucerne expertise Boeing has completed the first test flight of its autonomous air taxi powered by an electric propulsion system. The airframe was largely develope...
News Jan 24, 2019 Empa and isofloc develop fireproofing made of recycled paper The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) has teamed up with isofloc AG to find a binder that enables recycled p...
News Jan 22, 2019 MycoSolutions expanding with fresh funds MycoSolutions develops products based on indigenous organisms to combat wood destroying fungi. The spin-off of Empa in St. Gallen has just comple...
News Jan 22, 2019 Swiss Stock Exchange Launches World’s First Crypto Index Product The Swiss stock exchange SIX launched the world’s first exchange traded product (ETP) for crypto investments today. The “Amun Crypto ETP” will de...
News Jan 21, 2019 PropTech1 Ventures is coming to Switzerland PropTech1 Ventures, a German venture capital fund that focuses on PropTech startups, is opening an office in the Greater Zurich Area. Calling the...
Success stories Jan 20, 2019 Luxoft: Conquering the international market from Switzerland Luxoft Since its founding in April 2000, Luxoft has set out to use international best practices as a reference point. Its creator, Anatoly Karachinsky, ...
News Jan 17, 2019 Switzerland honored as Innovation Champion A new ranking presented at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas rates Switzerland as the world’s number two for innovation. The country scor...
News Jan 16, 2019 InterAx Biotech raises new capital InterAx Biotech has raised 3 million Swiss francs in a financing round. The startup has developed a platform that helps in the discovery of new m...
News Jan 16, 2019 Blockchain technology at the service of the wine business The Geneva-based fintech WeCan.Fund, created in 2015, is launching a new blockchain-based product for the wine business.
News Jan 15, 2019 PSI measures deep space gamma-ray bursts The POLAR detector developed at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) is trying to find out the origin of gamma-ray bursts in space. Scientists from t...
Success stories Jan 15, 2019 “Davos is very well connected in the world.” AO Research Institute The internationally renowned AO Research Institute is located in Davos, in the Canton of Grisons. Professor Geoff Richards, Director of AO Resear...
News Jan 14, 2019 RUAG modernizes Swiss Air Force transport helicopters In Emmen, RUAG is upgrading eight Cougar helicopters belonging to the Swiss Air Force. Set to receive the latest technology, the helicopters will...
News Jan 11, 2019 A new institute for Energy and the Environment Operational from 1 January 2019, the new Institute for Energy and the Environment of the HES-SO Valais-Wallis brings together technical, economic...
News Jan 11, 2019 Switzerland contributes to IBM’s patent record The IT giant IBM received a record number of 9,100 patents last year. This makes it once again the patent leader in the USA. Around 270 patents i...