CASE STUDY | ECOSYSTEM

Solving Key Scale-Up Challenges in the Swiss Ecosystem

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The Organization

Making Switzerland a Leading Digital Innovation Hub. Worldwide!

 

digitalswitzerland is a Swiss-wide, multi-stakeholder initiative created from the shared vision of its over 150 members to strengthen Switzerland’s position as a leading innovation hub.

By engaging government, business, academia and the public, digitalswitzerland creates a platform to lead Switzerland forward.

 

The Challenge

Over the past few years, Switzerland has greatly accelerated its innovation efforts in digital transformation, startup ecosystem and investor landscape.

Yet, the country trails behind the leading innovation hubs around the world. How can Switzerland continue to accelerate its efforts to become a globally leading innovation hub?

The Collaboration

digitalswitzerland was an early supporter of Strategy Tools’ methodology and toolkit.

After early conversation, the first pilot workshop was launched in Zurich in December 2019. Based on the excellent experience and feedback, the collaboration was extended into a larger part of the Swiss ecosystem.

 

The Solution

Scale Up!, with the combined solution of Scale Up! Simulation, Startup Series Canvases and digital apps, proved to be a powerful combination and a great match for some of the key scale up challenges in the Swiss ecosystem.

In December 2019, the first Pilot workshop was held, exploring the power of the Strategy Tools methodology in-depth and charting the path forward for a larger collaboration across the booming Swiss ecosystem.

 

Impact

Starting a conversation on future developments of the Swiss ecosystem

Rolling out a toolkit to support Swiss Accelerators

Read more about our next digitalswitzerland collaboration in February 2020.

“The most astonishing is you talk about these topics so much on a high level but to understand it in detail, it is difficult. You can actually only get the experience when you do it. You can’t find details of angel and VC investments or exits on the internet, not if you search and if, without all the details. Until now you need to be part of deals to learn these things.

Here you can learn them. This is great.
It explains a topic that is always talked about but is rarely understood.

Impressive, seriously.”

Matthias Zwingli
Startup Ecosystem Builder
digitalswitzerland
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digitalswitzerland is a Swiss-wide, multi-stakeholder initiative created from the shared vision of its over 150 members to strengthen Switzerland’s position as a leading innovation hub. By engaging government, business, academia and the public, digitalswitzerland creates a platform to lead Switzerland forward. Check out digitalswitzerland’s website.

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