I’m glad we are the leaders in important areas such as registered .ch domains or Github commits per population xD
Apart from good universities, Nobel prize laureates per capita etc. such an index could also be affected by multinationals that hold their patents in Swiss subsidiaries to shift profits to Switzerland via group-internal fees for the use of such intellectual property. However, I don’t know how this index is constructed. Maybe I’m wrong and it accounts for such a bias. And other dimensions of Swiss innovation are quite impressive nonetheless, so your question remains relevant.
M-séléction raclette cheese with flowers in it.
Innovative accounting. Main innovation over creative accounting is to maintain somehow reputable status.
Actually a lot of things.
University research, support from private companies, lots of innovations, …
Lately, I am reading a lot about renewable energy – and a shocking amount of the ideas, new technologies or trends come from Swiss companies and universities.
I’m going to guess that it going to be largely contributed to by CERN and ETHZ, the 25 Nobel Prizes, and a high standard of living and infrastructure, as well as the 250 Pharma companies throughout Switzerland. Switzerland is also known for being one of the best countries for startups, which would likely contribute.
The healthcare system
It’s the cheese.
Aromat.
the fact we are also number 1 in “most diverse economy” should be factored in here.
we are number 1 **because** we don’t rely on a single industry.
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Money put into research that generates parents, then patenting everything; such as electrical outlets that aren’t horrible to use.
> Switzerlandʼs main innovation strengths are Country-code TLDs/th pop. 15-69 (rank 1), GitHub commits/mn pop. 15-69 (rank 1) and ICT use (rank 1).
From the source of this study: https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2023/ch.pdf
I’m glad we are the leaders in important areas such as registered .ch domains or Github commits per population xD
Apart from good universities, Nobel prize laureates per capita etc. such an index could also be affected by multinationals that hold their patents in Swiss subsidiaries to shift profits to Switzerland via group-internal fees for the use of such intellectual property. However, I don’t know how this index is constructed. Maybe I’m wrong and it accounts for such a bias. And other dimensions of Swiss innovation are quite impressive nonetheless, so your question remains relevant.
M-séléction raclette cheese with flowers in it.
Innovative accounting. Main innovation over creative accounting is to maintain somehow reputable status.
Actually a lot of things.
University research, support from private companies, lots of innovations, …
Lately, I am reading a lot about renewable energy – and a shocking amount of the ideas, new technologies or trends come from Swiss companies and universities.
I’m going to guess that it going to be largely contributed to by CERN and ETHZ, the 25 Nobel Prizes, and a high standard of living and infrastructure, as well as the 250 Pharma companies throughout Switzerland. Switzerland is also known for being one of the best countries for startups, which would likely contribute.
The healthcare system
It’s the cheese.
Aromat.
the fact we are also number 1 in “most diverse economy” should be factored in here.
we are number 1 **because** we don’t rely on a single industry.