Successful innovators are creative, persistent, eager and prepared to move out of their comfort zone. The Swiss Innovation Challenge is for anyone who wants to apply or sharpen these qualities.
The Swiss Innovation Challenge promotes individuals and teams or start-ups, companies and other institutions (e.g. public bodies and associations) in Switzerland and abroad. If your idea or project is feasible and demonstrates innovative value and potential, you will be invited in for an interview. We will decide whether or not to put you forward for the competition based on your completed application form and interview.
You are a start-up, a company or an institution (e.g. a public body or association) and are already established on the market or are a new entrant to the market.
You or your company have an innovation project in the pipeline for the near future or have taken an innovative step in the past two calendar years.
You can enter an innovative idea into the competition once or multiple times. However, the competition is not open to innovations that have already won an award as part of SWISS INNOVATION.
The innovation project must be submitted in one of Switzerland’s official languages or in English. Correspondence will be in German or English.
You may only compete in one of the sub-categories of the SWISS CHALLENGE at any one time.
A maximum of 100 innovation projects may be entered into the Swiss Innovation Challenge. The Swiss Innovation Challenge team also reserves the right to reject an entry or to exclude participants from the competition without giving a reason.
