What works in Zürich
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Evidence snapshot for Zürich
Since 1993, Technopark Zürich has hosted approximately 300 companies and 2,800 jobs on a single 47,000 m² campus, anchoring ETH Zurich's spin-off pipeline of 530 companies since 1973, of which 519 remain active with a 93% five-year survival rate. A surveyed cohort of 145 ETH spin-offs generated approximately 4,500 full-time jobs and combined equity value of roughly CHF 5 billion, with annual investment reaching CHF 425 million into ETH spin-offs in 2024. However, the evidence does not measure how much the model depends on ETH's unusually large research budget and Zurich's dense finance/industry cluster, limiting confidence in how transferable this approach is elsewhere.
Drawn from: Technopark Zürich — ETH spin-off and knowledge-transfer campus · Technopark Zürich — ETH Spin-off & Deep-Tech Transfer Campus · Technopark Zürich — Three Decades of ETH Spin-off Commercialisation · Technopark Zürich — Switzerland's First Science-to-Market Transfer Hub
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Sustainability / continuity +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +20 pts 80 here · 60 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +13 pts 92 here · 78 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Innovation +11 pts 75 here · 64 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / demonstrated replication -13 pts 47 here · 59 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Inclusiveness / equity -33 pts 8 here · 41 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Zürich. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Technopark Zürich — ETH spin-off and knowledge-transfer campus · 71
Technopark Zürich — ETH Spin-off & Deep-Tech Transfer Campus · 71
Technopark Zürich — Three Decades of ETH Spin-off Commercialisation · 67
Technopark Zürich — Switzerland's First Science-to-Market Transfer Hub · 62
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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