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ETH transfer helps young ETH companies be successful: Susos AG is on course for success with its surface-finishing products.
In the picture: Silke Meyns, ETH transfer; Samuele Tosatti, CEO Susos AG; Silvio Bonaccio, ETH transfer; Andreas Kloeti, ETH transfer;
Stefan Zürcher, Head R&D Susos AG.
ETH transfer on course for success
Young companies such as Celeroton and Susos AG are supported
by ETH Zurich right from the very start. The team of
specialists at ETH transfer advise ETH members on all aspects
of collaboration with industry, inventions, patent registration
and licensing, as well as on how to set up an ETH
spin-off company.
“We have worked intensively for years on promoting new
companies. Last year, we made the processes for setting up
a new company even more efficient and systematic than
before,” explains Silvio Bonaccio, Head of ETH transfer.
Another scheme that has come into being to support future
company founders is the YEP (Young Entrepreneur Programme),
a joint initiative by CTI Start-up – a programme
run by the Swiss Federal Innovation Promotion Agency –
and ETH transfer.
Here, experienced coaches from industry support the
young entrepreneurs. The successful business promotion
initiative, Venture, instituted by McKinsey & Company back
in 1997 in partnership with ETH Zurich, has run its sixth
nationwide business plan competition in Switzerland. The
winners in the first three places this time were the ETH
company projects Optotune, NeMoDevices (a spin-off from
ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich) and Celeroton,
described above. 2008 also saw the start of the Industrial
Relations Program led by Niklaus Bühler, the aim of which is
to take an even more targeted approach in encouraging
major companies to work with ETH Zurich. Dream partnerships
such as the collaboration with Walt Disney or the
90 million dollar nano-initiative with IBM cannot be left to
chance.
www.transfer.ethz.ch/index_EN
www.spinoff.ethz.ch
Spin-off study: www.transfer.ethz.ch/ETH_Zurich_spin-offs.pdf
www.celeroton.com
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