{"id":4609,"date":"2019-04-11T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/blog\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:53:26","slug":"increasingly-less-swiss-companies-invest-in-research-development-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/increasingly-less-swiss-companies-invest-in-research-development-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasingly Less Swiss Companies Invest in Research & Development (R&D)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Swiss companies are concentrating more on product enhancements than on investment in the research and development (R&D) of new, innovative products. The share of Swiss companies that invest in R&D has shrunk from a quarter in 2000 to the current 13.3%. This is demonstrated by ETH Zurich\u2019s Institute for Business Cycle Research.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Investment\nVolume Increased Yet Distributed Across Less Companies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to the 2016 innovation survey conducted by ETH Zurich\u2019s\nInstitute for Business Cycle Research, the total amount invested by Swiss\ncompanies in research and development (R&D) has risen compared to previous years. The number of companies that invest in\nR&D has shrunk, however. At the turn of century every fourth Swiss company\nwas still involved in research and development, but today it is approximately\nevery eighth that does so. Instead, more focus is being put on product\nenhancements.<\/strong> Factors behind the regression include lack of capital, long\ndepreciation periods of investment costs, high market risk and the\nlikelihood that an innovation might be copied. It is, above all, small and\nmedium-sized business that are affected by funding problems. A major factor\nbehind the decline is the high cost of research and development if done in\nSwitzerland; therefore, the number of companies involved in domestic R&D\nhas shrunk the most, whereas that of Swiss companies doing it abroad has\nremained stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things\nVarying Depending on Company Size<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The volume of R&D expenditure seems to depend on how big a company is:\nalthough at the turn of the century large concerns invested less, their\nexpenditure has been growing since 2009 once again. On the side of small and\nmedium-sized businesses, however, increasingly less has been spent for R&D\nsince 2000. Fortunately, cooperation among research companies has virtually\ndoubled. Cooperation with foreign partners has increased the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a\nwritten innovation survey, ETH Zurich\u2019s\nInstitute for Business Cycle Research has examined the innovation\nactivities of the Swiss economy over the period from 2014 to 2016. The survey\ncomprised some 5600 private companies from the industry, construction and\nservices sectors with more than five employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Innovation\nof Swiss Private Companies. Results of the 2016 Innovation Survey by ETH\nZurich\u2019s Institute for Business Cycle Research<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swiss companies are concentrating more on product enhancements than on investment in the research and development (R&D) of new, innovative products. The share of Swiss companies that invest in R&D has shrunk from a quarter in 2000 to the current 13.3%. This is demonstrated by ETH Zurich\u2019s Institute for Business Cycle Research. Investment Volume Increased […]<\/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":"Increasingly Less Swiss Companies Invest in Research & Development (R&D) #R&D #Switzerland #Innovation #Investment #Startupsch","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,381],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1176,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-1cl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609"}],"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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}