{"id":4217,"date":"2018-09-13T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/blog\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2018-09-04T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:05:35","slug":"number-company-formations-switzerland-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/number-company-formations-switzerland-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Company Formations in Switzerland Below Average"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the improved overall conditions for company formation in Switzerland, only 8.5% of the Swiss have set up a company over recent years. As a result, this figure is lower than in comparable countries. It appears so from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), an international study into entrepreneurship.<\/h2>\n

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The Conservative Swiss<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the study, the 2015 number of Switzerland\u2019s company founders has grown by 1.2% to today\u2019s 8.5%. Yet, Switzerland remains below the average 9.1 % in comparable innovation-based national economies such as Germany, Canada or the USA. On a positive note, however, 67.6 % of companies are set up in our country due to good opportunities, and only 13.9 % out of necessity. In comparable countries these figures are 53.5 and 17.2 %, respectively.<\/p>\n

However, if Swiss people decide to start their own business, they are ambitious: as many as 33.3% of Swiss founders are willing to employ six or more people within five years of the incorporation. It is the highest number amongst all European countries. Contrary to the average 3.3%, there are only 1.1% who give up their business in our country. With such a low rate, Switzerland\u2019s number of established founders (with more than 3.5 years of doing business) is, with 10.5%, significantly higher than the average in comparable countries, where it is 6.8%. With 29.5%, the number of those who are afraid of failure is also low compared with 40.3% abroad.<\/p>\n

Enthusiasm for Company Formation in Switzerland Within Reasonable Limits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only 53% of the Swiss see setting up a company as a good career choice, whereas in the Netherlands, for instance, it is 81%. The number of the respondents who said that they were going to start their own business within the three subsequent years has grown from 7.9% in 2016 to today\u2019s 10.5%. This is still below the average in comparable countries, however, where such intent was indicated by 15.2% of the respondents. With 3%, the proportion of the youth between 18 and 24 years who would like to launch or be in charge of a start-up is very low in our country. Here Switzerland ranks 23rd among 24 comparable national economies. With 1.6%, this rate is still lower only in France.<\/p>\n

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitors (GEM) is the biggest international study into entrepreneurship. In Switzerland it has been conducted by the Fribourg School of Management with its partners: SUPSI, Swiss Startup Factory (SSUF) and Swiss Economic Forum (SEF). As part of the study, 2400 people have been interviewed.<\/p>\n

Source: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Report for Switzerland 2017-2018<\/p>\n

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Despite the improved overall conditions for company formation in Switzerland, only 8.5% of the Swiss have set up a company over recent years. As a result, this figure is lower than in comparable countries. It appears so from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), an international study into entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Number of Company Formations in Switzerland Below Average #found #company #startup #GEM #startups.ch","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1673,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-161","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}