Useful links

Intellectual property

• Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
• European Patent Office: Inventor’s Handbook
• EPO Searching for patents
• Lens – patent search
• ipHandbook of Best Practices
• European IPR Helpdesk
• USPTO – United States Patent and Trademark Office
• EPO – European Patent Office
• World Intellectual Property Organisation: IP Panorama
• World Intellectual Property Organisation: IP Handbook
• WIPO’s member States

Start-up and entrepreneurship support

• HUB Entreprenariat et Innovation
• StartLab
• Innovaud
• FIT – Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique
• Alliance
• Innosuisse
• Platinn
• Venture
• Venture Kick
• Venturelab
• Genilem
• Masschallenge Switzerland

Some Entrepreneurship prizes

• Fondation de Vigier
• Altran Foundation
• Prix Strategis
• Prix Liechti
• Prix PERL
• Prix Venture
• Prix Isabelle Musy
• Concours START

Technology transfer

• SwiTT – Swiss Technology Transfer Association
• ASTP-Proton
• Association of University Technology Managers

Sector Platforms

• BioAlps
• Alp ICT
• Micronarc
• CleantechAlps

Research

• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Euresearch (Swiss office for European research projects – FP7 – IMI)

Other links

• State of Vaud (Economy/Innovation/Sport)
• Economic Development Canton of Vaud (DEV)
• European Union
• Planète Santé
• Republic of Innovation
• Startuptickers: the Swiss startup news channel