TECHNOPARK® Zürich – The First Decade: A Success Story

Abstract

TECHNOPARK® Zurich opened its doors ten years ago with the ambitious goal of providing the facilities and support for technology transfer from the academic institutions to industry. Since then the Technopark concept has proven itself convincingly with almost full occupancy of the building with tenants from ETH and University of Applied Sciences Zürich institutes and new and established startup and spinoff companies. The success of the Technopark has also contributed to a revival of the immediate neighbourhood and the concept is now being repeated in Winterthur and Lucerne. The recent Jubilee celebrations were marked by speeches by local dignitaries and the award of the TECHNOPARK® Zurich Foundation Prize to innovation wood (iwood AG).