{"id":1656,"date":"2025-06-18T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch.ownb.it\/testbeitrag-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:31:35","slug":"swiss-innovation-landscape-smes-as-the-driving-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/swiss-innovation-landscape-smes-as-the-driving-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Innovation Landscape \u2013 SMEs as the Driving Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
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    SMEs as a Driving Force for Innovation<\/h1>\n

    SMEs with 50\u2013250 employees are increasingly showing a willingness to engage in high-risk innovations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\n\n\t\t\t\t\t


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    The KOF study by ETH Zurich (2025) shows:<\/h4>\n

    SMEs are increasing their R&D investments, especially in riskier projects, but the innovative strength is unevenly distributed. Larger companies are contributing less and less to radical innovation.
    \ud83d\udc49 SMEs with 50\u2013250 employees are increasingly showing a willingness to engage in high-risk innovations.<\/p>\n

    Switzerland’s innovative strength remains a pillar of stability despite global uncertainties.<\/h4>\n

    Between 2020 and 2022, the innovation landscape presented a differentiated yet stable picture. Companies maintained a high level of market success with innovative products and services. However, there are developments that require economic policy attention, especially in relation to research and development (R&D), digital transformation, and barriers to innovation.<\/p>\n

    Concentration of R&D Activities<\/h4>\n

    Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the driving force behind Switzerland\u2019s innovation landscape. Among companies with 50 to 250 employees, there has been a noticeable increase in willingness to invest in riskier R&D projects. However, R&D activities are increasingly concentrated among small enterprises (fewer than 50 employees), which could affect innovation dynamics in the long term.<\/p>\n

    Large corporations, on the other hand, are showing a declining depth of innovation. While they remain innovative, the proportion of radical innovations\u2014true market novelties\u2014is decreasing.<\/p>\n

    Innovations that are new to the company but not to the market (incremental innovations) have gained in importance. These incremental innovations help to stabilize market success. More than one-third of companies consistently generate around one-third of their revenue from innovative products and services. However, the market success of radical innovations\u2014which often require more extensive R&D efforts\u2014is declining, a trend that could impact competitiveness over the long term.<\/p>\n

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    Schweizer Innovationslandschaft: Stabil trotz Herausforderungen \u2013 KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle | ETH Z\u00fcrich<\/a><\/p>\n

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    KMU mit 50\u2013250 Mitarbeitenden zeigen vermehrt Bereitschaft zu risikoreichen Innovationen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kmu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead-zh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}