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MNT Support Programs&Topics 2007/2008

A Regional/National Contact

1) Country and Geographical coverage: Switzerland

2) Name of initiative/program:

In the term of office 2004-2007, CTI is bound to pursue the following focus activities:

  • Increased promotion of start-ups and entrepreneurial culture; extension of the CTI Start-up initiative
  • Major fields of activity
  • Life Sciences
  • Nanotechnology and Microsystems Technology
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Boosting international cooperation activities, for example within the ESA, EUREKA and IMS framework
  • Consolidating competencies relative to applied R&D in the UAS
  • Promoting risk capital ventures, also called “Discovery Projects”, with high market potential
  • Encouraging interest of the young in science and technology

CTI aims to achieve three ends:

  • Reinforcement of innovation processes in the private sector
  • Practically-orientated qualification of researchers in universities and improvement of cooperation between universities and the private sector
  • Generation of more funds to support projects

 

3) Programme owner (ministry):

CTI The Innovation Promotion Agency, Effingerstrasse 27, CH-3003 Berne

 

4) Executing agency: CTI

 

Contact:

Roland Bühler, Project Manager CTI International

phone: + 41 - 31.324.71.41

mail: roland.buehler@bbt.admin.ch

web: www.kti-cti.ch

 

Together with:

TEMAS

Annemarie Gemperli, Executive MBA HSG

CH-9320 Arbon

phone: + 41 - 71.446.50.30

mail: annemarie.gemperli@temas.ch

web: www.temas.ch

 

 

B - Subject and conditions of support


 Program/Call name Technology/application focus covered Opening/Cut-off dates
a) Switzerland has no specific calls or top down oriented program for MNT (see 2) there are promotion domains such as Micro-Nano-Technologies, bottom up generated applied R&D projects between Academia and Industry Open all the time

Phases of R&D being funded (basic research, pre-competitive, application, serial production, market entry), funding rates (app.)

  • Feasibility studies (precompetitive character)
  • Alliance projects (application oriented)
  • individual projects (application oriented)
  • Discovery projects (precompetitive character)

Major restrictions (e.g. types of institutions eligible for funding; SMEs, public/private etc., openness to transnational consortia)

CTI promotes projects in applied research and development (aR&D) between centres of higher education (Universities, non-win oriented research institutes) and companies. Promotion follows the bottom-up principle: the project partners define their projects themselves. For application oriented project funding, a partnership between Academia and industry is required. At precompetitive level a commitment of a potential industrial partner is required.

CTI pays the participating researchers' salaries (from Academia). The industrial partner finances its own expenditure. Contributions from industry cover project-related expenditure: setting up facilities, licences and any equipment used for research purposes. There is no direct funding of industrial partners.

Where it makes sense, CTI provides funding for:

  • feasibility studies to define project aims and the relevant processes in concrete terms
  • cooperation with foreign competence bodies where there is a lack of corresponding knowledge in Switzerland. This leads to a transfer of know-how
  • coordination of joint projects involving several SMEs
  • measures to disseminate project results

 

C - Other national/regional programmes potentially suitable for co-operation


 Program/Call name Executing agency, contact Supported technologies/applications
a)


 

CTI creates the organisational framework for the promotion of research both in the national and the international community. Companies are to leverage more effectively the resources of university research and development. In addition to the benefit of the universities? infrastructure, better cooperations allow knowledge to flow from the universities into Business. CTI also pursues the strategy of international innovation programmes. Innovative Swiss companies and researchers are thus to be offered opportunities to develop innovations in cooperation with international partners. This leads to a faster time-to-market for excellent innovation ideas because in research and development there are no territorial borders.

With CTI International, CTI ensures a global presence both in Europe and worldwide. Its activities on the strategic and operational level generate networks crucial for Switzerland with respect to its future as a business location and the worldwide race to innovate.

CTI International is guided by the following principles:

  • CTI plays a role in the drawing up of realisation-oriented international research and development programmes primarily in the European research community.
  • CTI paves the way for small and middle-sized companies to market-orientated research and development programmes such as, EUREKA, IMS (Intelligent Manufacturing Systems), European Research Area, 6th and 7th Research Framework Programme and the research programs in China.
  • CTI promotes research and development cooperation of Swiss SMEs and research institutions with partners overseas, if there are no suitable partners in Switzerland. Value creation in Switzerland is the goal.