Technopark Zürich is a research park known as technopark based in the

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in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

History

Technopark Zürich was established in 1993. The founders planned to provide rooms, offices and other spaces for people from various branches, disciplines, universities, research institutes, start-ups and established enterprises.

Organisation

Technopark Zürich is managed as a privately funded foundation, and the property landlords are Swiss Life and Zürcher Kantonalbank. The foundation has two major divisions. One division is responsible for the real estate, handling all tenancy and facility management activities, including the lease of rooms for events. The other division is concerned with the actual foundation affairs ''to increase the competitiveness of the Swiss economy and to create enduring jobs''.

Collaborations

Technopark has numerous strategic collaborative partners to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology and the development of start-up companies: Centre Suisse d’Électronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), CTI-Start-up, Division of Business and Economic Development of the Canton of Zürich,

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Dübendorf, ETH Zurich, FHS St.Gallen, glaTec, Greater Zurich Area,

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(IASP), Swissparks, University of St. Gallen,

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(ZHAW). ''Technopark-Alliance'' was founded in 2002 to provide technology from academia to practice. The Technoparks in Aargau, Lugano, Luzern, Schlieren, Winterthur, Liechtenstein (Vaduz), Landquart and Zürich are members of the Technopark-Alliance.

Location

Technopark is located in the Industriequartier district of the city of Zürich. It houses around 300 companies and organizations of the fields of science, technology and economy, among them

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logistics and digitec, at its 47,000 m² site. The Technopark building complex was built between 1989 and 1993 as the first large single building on the industrial site of the former Escher Wyss & Cie company, and triggered the overall planning of the 17-hectare site. The project relied on the private design plan ''Techno Park'' (1991) and to the private design plan Escher Wyss area (1995/99). In 2011 the city council of Zürich authorized the partial revision of the design plan, and in 2012 the middle section of the building was increased.

References

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