{"id":148442,"date":"2020-05-28T13:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/interested-in-business-and-collaboration-opportunities-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:16:37","slug":"interested-in-business-and-collaboration-opportunities-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/interested-in-business-and-collaboration-opportunities-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in business and collaboration opportunities in Switzerland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lead\">As of 1st May 2020, Maarja Kadajane joined the ranks of Estonian Foreign Ministry, working as Business and Innovation Advisor in Switzerland. If you are interested in business or innovation collaboration, feel free to contact her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maarja is mostly based in Geneva, Switzerland where she has been living and working for the past 13 years. \u201eMy main goal is to strengthen economic relations between Estonia and Switzerland, whether it be related to business or innovation collaboration. I will be keeping an eye on both the bilateral projects, as well as on collaboration opportunities with the international organisations,\u201c she introduces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eAs is well known, Switzerland is home to a strong Life Sciences sector, encompassing in addition to pharmaceutical firms a dense network of medtech, biotech, and nanotech companies. Given Estonia\u00b4s agility in health technology, there is potential for stronger collaboration between Switzerland and Estonia,\u201c she believes. Estonian companies and institutions that are interested in entering the Swiss market are encouraged to get in touch. \u201eOne of the aims is to create a network of contacts with the local industry, universities, such as ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, University of Geneva and the related innovation parks. If and where possible, we can also look into investment opportunities,\u201c she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eFor a fruitful and effective collaboration, it would be helpful if the company\/institution had a specific idea and possibly a strategy for entering the Swiss market,\u201c she advises. \u201eIt is important to keep in mind that the Swiss market is highly regulated and each canton, of which there are 26, can have their own rules and regulations. Also, Switzerland boasts four national languages and a multicultural population which can somewhat complicate the market entry. At the same time, the market is sophisticated, quality- and environment conscious and there is interest in high-tech products and services. There are, however, considerable similarities between Estonian and Swiss mentalities which can be an advantage,\u201c Maarja Kadajane points out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 1st May 2020, Maarja Kadajane joined the ranks of Estonian Foreign Ministry, working as Business and Innovation Advisor in Switzerland. If you are interested in business or innovation collaboration, feel free to contact her. Maarja is mostly based in Geneva, Switzerland where she has been living and working for the past 13 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":147647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}