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Swiss Post Innovation
Pitch Contest
13 July 2017
Google Campus Seoul
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Outline
1. Google Campus Seoul
2. Science & Technology Office, Embassy of Switzerland in the Republic of Korea
3. Innovation at Swiss Post
4. Pitch Contest
5. Networking with Swiss Food
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Science & Technology Office (STO) Seoul
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Junghyun Lee
Innovation Scout
Valentin Terrail
Project Manager
Ji-Hyun Lim
Deputy Head
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Switzerland - Top of Excellence
¬ Highest number of Nobel Prizes per
capita
¬ 20 Nobel Laureates with Swiss
citizenship
¬ 29 Nobel Laureates of other
nationalities who did more than 5 years
research in Switzerland
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Innovation – Facts about Switzerland
Switzerland leads!
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Switzerland – Global Innovation Leader – why?
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Hidden Champions
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Science &Technology Office – Korea – Bilateral Collaboration – Education – Research – Innovation
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University Rankings
¬ Times Higher University Ranking 2016-17 top 200
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Rank Universities
9 ETH Zürich
30 EPFL
72 Seoul National University (SNU)
89 KAIST
98 University of Basel
104 POSTECH
106 University of Zurich
110 University of Bern
137 University of Geneva
137 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
151 University of Lausanne
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Start-ups in Switzerland
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(www.startup.ch)
ICT > Medtech & Diagnostics > Engineering > Biotech & Pharma > Cleantech
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Start-up Culture in Switzerland
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Quality and Quantity
¬ Increasing number of new start-ups every year
¬ About 90% of start-ups survive first 5 years
Highlights of ETHZ
¬ 355 start-ups since 1996
¬ 25 start-ups founded at ETH Zurich 2016
¬ More than 80mio USD raised by 9 ETH spin-offs in the last year
Highlights of EPFL
¬ 230 start-ups between 2000-2016 (more than one new start-up per
month!)
¬ Venture funds of > 100mio USD in 2012
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Switzerland & Korea : Different but Compatible
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Small market, surrounded by large
neighbours, no natural resources
Mid-size market, surrounded by huge
neighbours, no natural resources
Global people, mindset & innovation
ecosystem
National race to be No1 (changing)
Multinationals: We know we are not
so good at innovating so we better
partner up and help each other!
(respect & collaboration)
Chaebol: We are the best anyway or
else we will buy them!
(not changing yet)
Industries: Life science, medtech,
precision, strong SMEs
Industries: IT, heavy, materials
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Crypoto Valley : Blockchain ecosystem
- Zug tax authority approves the first Ether token crowed sale as tax-free
- Bitcoin ATMs in Switzerland
- Bitcoins as a foreign currency – No regulations are needed! No Sales taxes
- Swiss national rail SBB offers bitcoin purchases
- Blockchain competition with the biggest prize worldwide (CHF 100,000) backed by the Swiss insurance industry, Swiss banks and consulting firms
- PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) is collaborating with the crowdfunding platform
- Visa is opening its programming interfaces to selected fintech start-ups
- All this has attracted Investors
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Swiss-Korean Projects & Opportunities
Government Funding
Basic Research Collaboration (Scientist – Scientist)
(SNSF – NRF)
Market Oriented R&D Collaboration (Consortium – Consortium)
(CTI – KIAT)
Young Researchers Exchange Program
(ETH-NRF)
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Possible Partnerships with Switzerland
- Large company
- SME
- Start-up
- University/ETH/EPFL/Hospital
- University of Applied Sciences (UAS)
Swiss-Korean Call for Joint R&D Projects
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Company Company
R&D Inst/Univ R&D Inst/Univ
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Danke! Merci! Grazie! Grazia!
감사합니다!
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