2018 Startup GUIDE - 10th Edition

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Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne
Welcome to a true engine
for your R&D projects
Tallored to your needs, for highest
performance
Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne (SIP BB) is part of the network
of the Switzerland Innovation Foundation. As a private Swiss
non-profit organization, SIP BB operates and supports industrial
and primarily applied research and development. We support
SMEs and startups in the implementation of innovative ideas and
acquisition of research funds, help them identify suitable research
partners, and manage quality control of innovation projects.
Offer
SIP BB pursues the following goals:
• y Generate investments in research from abroad
• y Promote innovation performance of Switzerland
• y Accelerate the implementation of research results into marketable
products
• y Support startups
The competence centers of SIP BB
Our four competence centers are supplemented by an engineering
team, depending on the project requirements. This specific
bundling of competences and yet close connection of the four
centers is unique in Switzerland.
• y Swiss Smart Factory (SSF)
• y Swiss Advanced Manufacturing Center (SAMC)
• y Swiss Medtech Center (SMTC)
• y Swiss Battery Technology Center (SBTC)
With the opening of the Swiss Smart Factory (SSF) in May 2017,
the Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne launched the first
test and demonstration platform for Industry 4.0 in Switzerland.
The SSF’s vision is to become Switzerland’s leading, internationally-recognized
center of competence in application-oriented research
and transfer of Industry 4.0, as well as to create an ecosystem
of partners, by which unique innovations and activities
relating to Industry 4.0 can be developed.
The FABLAB (fabrication laboratory)
The FABLAB is part of SIP BB and is an open workshop that enables
our customers to access production equipment and modern
industrial production processes. It has been designed for
the production of single pieces and is a part of the prototyping
Canton of Berne State Councillor Christoph Ammann and Swiss
Federal Councilor Johann Schneider-Ammann with Felix Kunz,
CEO SIP BB, in the Swiss Smart Factory.
service. The FABLAB is accessible to everyone and offers many
courses and workshops.
Coworking Space
At the Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne there is always
enough space for companies and projects. The Coworking Space
is designed specifically for startups and young companies. Meeting
rooms, the auditorium, bistro, open innovation rooms and
FABLAB can be used as additional infrastructure as required.
The new Innovationpark (from 2020)
The five-storey building is modern, flooded with light and very adaptable.
The centerpiece is the large, open workshop of the Swiss
Smart Factory. The new building will be situated right next to the
Biel railway station and across from the new campus of the Bern
University of Applied Sciences (opening approx. in 2022).
Opening of the new
building in 2020
In September 2017 opened the
largest and most modern FABLAB in
Switzerland.
Location of SIP BB, the new building
in 2020 and the FABLAB
Contact
Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne AG
Aarbergstrasse 5 | CH-2560 Nidau b. Biel/Bienne
+41 32 530 88 88
www.sipbb.ch | info@sipbb.ch
SWISS STARTUP GUIDE 2018