Funding examples

Digitalising the springs industry: a sector traditionally rooted in mechanical engineering. This is the ambitious challenge that Federnfabrik Schmid AG has set itself.

The “Netzwelten – Learning in moving” project, which looks at how children learn in movement, challenges traditional teaching methods and the static seated setting.

UniSieve is blowing winds of change into the heavy industry sector with it's new innovation – environmentally-friendly molecular separation technology. Faced with the urgent need to decarbonise, the industry is struggling to reduce its energy consumption. This is due to the high temperature requirements of conventional chemical separation processes. UniSieve’s approach is groundbreaking. Using sieving membranes, the start-up breaks down large molecules by filtering them.

Thanks to Innosuisse's internationalisation camps, two dimpora employees had recently the opportunity to visit Japan to meet potential customers and to look at ways of achieving large-scale production.

For a Swiss SME, finding the right partners with which to develop innovative products is no easy task. The Bern-based company Rebus Labs also found this to be a challenge – but one that it was able to overcome thanks to networking opportunities provided by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).

Solaxer has increases the efficiency of the receivers and that does not oxidise, even at temperatures of up to 400 degrees.

“Innovation enjoys a higher priority in Switzerland than in other countries.”

“Innovation enjoys a higher priority in Switzerland than in other countries.”

“After my PhD in theoretical physics I was drawn to Zurich. But I quickly became bored with my work as a risk manager at a Swiss bank. I then came up with the idea of founding my own company more by chance.”