The Start-Up Ecosystem of Switzerland consists of a wide variety of cantonal, federal and private initiatives. This short introduction to the topic will provide an overview of the most relevant available Startup programs, co-working spaces, accelerators and support system, thus laying the ground for the present Startuper’s experiences in their respective pitches and the following panel...
IRsweep was founded as a spin-off of ETH Zürich in 2014 with the mission to make frequency comb spectroscopy available to field applications. While a solid technology is the foundation of IRsweep, much more is required to turn it into a successful hardware product and an account of the journey from experiments to a working product will be given – including some detours on the way.
FEMTOprint SA is a Swiss high-tech company specialised in manufacturing 3D microdevices out of glass and other transparent materials. Founded in 2013, it is a spinoff of a European Project financed by Factories of the Future and FP7, which developed the innovative process FEMTOPRINT®, able to produce precise freeform 3D microdevices integrating optical, fluidic and mechanical functionalities...
Research on macroscopic quantum phenomena at the University of Vienna has resulted in the development of a new optical coating technology with unprecedented performance. The spin-off company Crystalline Mirror Solutions has taken this technology to the market. In a nutshell, substrate-transferred crystalline coatings allow to exploit the unique properties of single-crystal semiconductor...
The Center for Rapid Innovation is the Fablab of the business incubator Werkstätte Wattens has been very much inspired by the Fab Central at MIT’s Media Lab. As a high technology digital fabrication laboratory, our goal is to sustainable enable students, start-ups, established companies as well as common people (makers) alike an access to state of the art rapid prototyping technology.
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DECTRIS, founded 2006 as a spin-off from the PSI, is a Swiss company spezializing in high-end X-ray detectors. The company's mission is to bring single photon counting technology originally developed for the LHC to users in science, medicine and industry.
This talk is both a look back and a look ahead: what did it take to become the widely recognized leader for X-ray detectors for synchrotrons...
Over 7 million people die each year worldwide because of air pollution, mainly due to the use of fossil fuels. About 80 % of energy consumption is in cities where space is limited and esthetics are important. Buildings tend to be high and there is not enough roof-top space for classic PV technologies to produce sufficient energy. g2e’s product, a transparent colored glass producing energy, is...
New technologies are needed to still our never ending hunger for energy in a sustainable way. TwingTec develops a new wind energy technology which can reach the strong winds at higher altitudes using only a fraction of the material of a wind turbine. The presentation will give an overview of our technology and some inputs on why I ended up as a physicist to leave the world of science to enter...
The 20th century has seen a rise in data-driven methods in most sectors of education. Recently, libraries like Wikipedia, have brought always available content. Why memorize dates and other data if it is ever accessible? Waltzing Atoms is an EdTech-Startup from Vienna that playfully sparks the enthusiasm for science in young people. The software tool targets especially those...
