Swiss Startup Radar, a data analysis of 4,000 technology-based start-up companies with growth potential, paints an unvarnished picture of the Swiss start-up scene. One result…
Stefan Kyora11. December 2018
Insights into all things digital, our initiatives and projects.
Author’s note The success of Silicon Valley as the world’s most successful digital innovation ecosystem is largely due to a perfect storm. This storm has…
Joel Blom7. December 2018
Keynote speaker, Dr. Solomon Darwin, known as “The Father of the Smart Village Movement” stepped onto the Kraftwerk stage, fiddled with his two Macbooks and beamed…
Joel Blom6. December 2018
The Swiss 2014 law called WeBIG, which came into effect in 2017, defined lifelong learning as a personal responsibility and set the framework to finance…
Daniele Castle6. December 2018
In addition to a clear value proposition that organisations must develop to attract and retain the best employees, the digitalswitzerland Top Talent study also identified…
Daniele Castle29. November 2018
All the companies in digitalswitzerland’s Top Talent interviews and survey believe that lifelong learning is a critical success factor. According to the interviewees, as skills…
Daniele Castle29. November 2018
Mondays could always start like this: with a croissant and café at the beautiful Hôtel de Ville in Paris, talking about digital innovation and technology…
Niniane Paeffgen23. November 2018
Victims and perpetrators Riva Digital’s bet, emerging from digitalswitzerland's Challenges, is a noble attempt to save lives by exposing a cunning killer, hypertension – the leading…
Joel Blom21. November 2018
In parallel to the Digital Summit Switzerland (Digital Gipfel Schweiz), the Websummit took place in Lisbon on the first week of November. Over 70,000 participants…
Guillaume Gabus20. November 2018
Play, talk, exercise – what does a playground 4.0 look like? For the second year running digitalswitzerland ran a video competition for all Swiss schools,…
Daniele Castle19. November 2018
Where do good ideas come from? With today’s innovation imperative for all organisations, it’s important to understand where good ideas come from, and how to…
Daniel Ginter14. November 2018
With the increasing application of digital technologies, talented employees are expected to become an even more important component of successful business models. According to digitalswitzerland's…
Daniele Castle14. November 2018
A cross-sectoral survey Attracting and retaining top talent is a major concern for companies based in Switzerland, particularly in the areas of STEM and ICT,…
Daniele Castle12. November 2018
How to create successful partnerships between high-growth start-ups and established organisations? We address this topic in a handbook we published in collaboration with Kickstart and…
Nicolas Bürer9. November 2018
Following a successful Swiss Digital Day where we opened the dialogue with the Swiss public on technology and innovation, our first Digital Gipfel Schweiz (Digital…
Stéphanie Schenk8. November 2018
The Matterhorn Programme has been launched! During the Digital Day on 25 October, the first three Matterhorn Programmes were presented on the main stage in Zurich.…
Guillaume Gabus2. November 2018
On 25 October we hosted Digital Day in Switzerland. Isn't every day a digital day, with smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc...? Yes and no – it…
Birgit Pestalozzi25. October 2018
South Summit truly does not disappoint as a global innovation platform that connects top innovators from Southern Europe and Latin America to the world´s most…
Guest Author22. October 2018
Part of digitalswitzerland's nextgeneration initiative,TEENformatiCAMP is one of the few opportunities in Ticino to spend the summertime coding. The one-week session of TEENformatiCAMP in Manno (TI)…
Daniele Castle22. October 2018
We are happy to share a guest blog from one of our Digital Day partner organizations, Isabelle Vautravers from Sanitas Health Insurance Foundation, addressing one of…
Guest Author22. October 2018