Alliance is Western Switzerland's technological innovation platform, supporting you in your strategic innovation thinking, from analyzing your needs to implementing and setting up your projects. Hosted at EPFL, Alliance offers you privileged access to academia and innovation ecosystems.

Member companies benefit from personalized support in their innovation process, and conferences and workshops are organized especially for them.

Alliance is with you every step of your innovation journey.

Who is Alliance for?

Alliance is aimed at all innovative companies in Switzerland, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises investing in the fields of excellence of our partner universities:

• micro and nanotechnologies
• information and communication technologies
• engineering and cleantech
• biotech, medtech and foodtech

Types of partnerships

Together, we'll see what's best for your company, depending on your project and the availability of the targeted researchers: one-off consultancy, short or medium-term assignments. All configurations are possible, as long as both parties are fully satisfied.

Your contacts

Our innovation mentors in innovation are your contacts. Combining solid industrial experience with expertise in one of the above-mentioned research fields, our team is here to translate your ambitions into concrete projects. Our innovation mentors team will work with you to analyze your specific needs and guide you in your chosen type of collaboration.

Project set-up

Direct mandate? Innosuisse project? Other? Whatever your idea, we'll guide you through the process of setting up your project... Our innovation mentors team has a wealth of experience in setting up Innosuisse projects. Over the past 5 years, they have supported almost 300 CTI/Innosuisse projects, with a success rate of almost 80%.