Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NASA: Lessons Learned

The NCCR PlanetS, in collaboration with the Innovation Office of the University of Bern, the Entrepreneurship Center and be-advanced are happy to invite you the 28th of February 2023 for a unique event in company of Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen about the lessons he learnt at NASA regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen was the […]

Bringing astronomical innovation to markets

The first edition of the Astronomical Innovation event, co-organized by the PlanetS Technology & Innovation Platform (TIP) and the Science Innovation Hub (SIH) of the University of Geneva, took place at the Geneva Observatory in June. There, researchers learned of the support that PlanetS and its member institutions can provide in exploring the path to […]

Astronomical Innovation: let’s talk about start-ups!

Do you want to learn more about Entrepreneurship and possibilities to develop your Idea, with the help of your Research Institution?Come and join us, the 2nd of June at 14h (start of the event!), at the Geneva Observatory and meet Innovation experts from University of Geneva, Berne, Zurich and ETHZ. Info and registration here.   […]

Impulse programme «Swiss Innovation Power»

Innosuisse co-funds innovation projects that companies and private and public institutions conduct jointly with research partners in Switzerland. Conditions for companies (called implementation partners) for projects have been relaxed due to the Covid, from January 2021 until the end of 2022. Eased financial terms for innovation projects are intended to help SMEs maintain their innovative […]

Bench2Biz 2021: save the date!

Bench2biz is a partnership between NCCR academic actors in high-technology fields to support aspiring entrepreneurs to determine rapidly the commercial merit of their idea or invention and offers a unique training within the entrepreneurial training market. More details can be found on the dedicated website https://bench2biz.ch. Participants profit from an objective analysis of their very […]

Bench2biz 2020 workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs

The bench2biz* consortium is pleased to announce its next pre-seed workshop which will be held online from November 23 to December 04, 2020, entitling 20 hours spread over two weeks, to host idea champions from all over Switzerland. The workshop targets very early to early high-technology entrepreneurial ideas from all fields and prepares for the […]

Course of Project Management (PM) for PlanetS

The PM course successfully took place in Avril/May 2020. Initially proposed to PlanetS collaborators as a mixed online-onsite course but, due to the extraordinary Covid-19 situation, it was re-shapes to a 100% online. The main objective of the course was to give the basic PM methods to participants that can be applied in their current […]

Venture Kick : CHF 5,000,000 to kick Swiss startups to global markets The philanthropic initiative Venture Kick provides up to CHF 150,000 in seed funding to Swiss startups. In addition, it offers a well-structured entrepreneurial path towards building a winning business. Startups pitch to expert juries at three stages to obtain funding, gaining direct feedback, […]

European space research & innovation and Euresearch

SPIE 2020

This year takes place again the biennial SPIE international conference on Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments. It will be held between June 14th and 19th in Yokohama (Japan), link. The last 2018 edition was held in Austin (USA) gathering 2500 visitors and 125 exhibitor companies. For the 2020 edition the Swiss astronomer consortium NCCR PlanetS and the Swiss […]