ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has produced 583 spin-offs since 1973 with a 93% five-year survival rate, but its outlier funding base limits …
Zurich, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
Switzerland's pioneering science park in Zurich-West links ETH Zurich and University of Zurich research to industry, hosting ~260 companies (~2,800 jobs), including …
Zurich, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Official investment-promotion agency of the Zurich region: 91 companies settled in 2024 (OpenAI, Revolut, BYD), 98 in 2025 (1,295 planned jobs); 1,000+ …
Switzerland's migration agency is running a randomized trial of GeoMatch, an algorithm recommending which canton should host an asylum-seeking family to maximise …
Switzerland's statutory biodiversity payments compensate ~47,000 farms for maintaining over 184,000 ha of Biodiversity Promotion Areas — wildflower meadows, orchards, wetlands and …
WIPO-led public-private partnership (2014) whose Global Book Service let libraries for the blind exchange 500,000+ accessible titles in 76 languages across borders …
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court trained its own judgment-anonymisation model (92.26% recall, 92.57% precision, self-reported) on two in-house GPUs and runs ChatTF …
In 2002 Swiss authorities removed about 1 km of embankments on the Thur River near Niederneunforn, letting the channel widen naturally; peer-reviewed …
Niederneunforn, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%53/100
A 1987 referendum (58% approval) enshrined moor protection in the Swiss constitution; ~550 raised bogs and 1,200+ fens are now safeguarded nationally. …
Since 1988, Zürich's Bachkonzept has systematically separated clean rainwater from sewage and reopened culverted streams, daylighting about 20 of the city's roughly …
Zürich, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 74%47/100
SNB researchers tested eight machine-learning methods against 1,100+ time series to nowcast Swiss GDP. For the post-2008 period, every ML technique beat …
A CHF 200,000 Swiss National Science Foundation grant funds SUPSI/IDSIA and DFA/ASP to co-design AI, bias and generative-AI teaching activities with about …