Swiss Post Innovation

Pitch Contest

13 July 2017

Google Campus Seoul

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Outline

1. Google Campus Seoul

2. Science & Technology Office, Embassy of Switzerland in the Republic of Korea

3. Innovation at Swiss Post

4. Pitch Contest

5. Networking with Swiss Food

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Science & Technology Office (STO) Seoul

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Junghyun Lee

Innovation Scout

Valentin Terrail

Project Manager

Ji-Hyun Lim

Deputy Head

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Switzerland - Top of Excellence

¬ Highest number of Nobel Prizes per

capita

¬ 20 Nobel Laureates with Swiss

citizenship

¬ 29 Nobel Laureates of other

nationalities who did more than 5 years

research in Switzerland

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Innovation – Facts about Switzerland

Switzerland leads!

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Switzerland – Global Innovation Leader – why?

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Hidden Champions

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Science &Technology Office – Korea – Bilateral Collaboration – Education – Research – Innovation

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University Rankings

¬ Times Higher University Ranking 2016-17 top 200

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Rank Universities

9 ETH Zürich

30 EPFL

72 Seoul National University (SNU)

89 KAIST

98 University of Basel

104 POSTECH

106 University of Zurich

110 University of Bern

137 University of Geneva

137 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

151 University of Lausanne

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Start-ups in Switzerland

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(www.startup.ch)

ICT > Medtech & Diagnostics > Engineering > Biotech & Pharma > Cleantech

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Start-up Culture in Switzerland

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Quality and Quantity

¬ Increasing number of new start-ups every year

¬ About 90% of start-ups survive first 5 years

Highlights of ETHZ

¬ 355 start-ups since 1996

¬ 25 start-ups founded at ETH Zurich 2016

¬ More than 80mio USD raised by 9 ETH spin-offs in the last year

Highlights of EPFL

¬ 230 start-ups between 2000-2016 (more than one new start-up per

month!)

¬ Venture funds of > 100mio USD in 2012

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Switzerland & Korea : Different but Compatible

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Small market, surrounded by large

neighbours, no natural resources

Mid-size market, surrounded by huge

neighbours, no natural resources

Global people, mindset & innovation

ecosystem

National race to be No1 (changing)

Multinationals: We know we are not

so good at innovating so we better

partner up and help each other!

(respect & collaboration)

Chaebol: We are the best anyway or

else we will buy them!

(not changing yet)

Industries: Life science, medtech,

precision, strong SMEs

Industries: IT, heavy, materials

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Crypoto Valley : Blockchain ecosystem

- Zug tax authority approves the first Ether token crowed sale as tax-free

- Bitcoin ATMs in Switzerland

- Bitcoins as a foreign currency – No regulations are needed! No Sales taxes

- Swiss national rail SBB offers bitcoin purchases

- Blockchain competition with the biggest prize worldwide (CHF 100,000) backed by the Swiss insurance industry, Swiss banks and consulting firms

- PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) is collaborating with the crowdfunding platform

- Visa is opening its programming interfaces to selected fintech start-ups

- All this has attracted Investors

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Swiss-Korean Projects & Opportunities

Government Funding

Basic Research Collaboration (Scientist – Scientist)

(SNSF – NRF)

Market Oriented R&D Collaboration (Consortium – Consortium)

(CTI – KIAT)

Young Researchers Exchange Program

(ETH-NRF)

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Possible Partnerships with Switzerland

- Large company

- SME

- Start-up

- University/ETH/EPFL/Hospital

- University of Applied Sciences (UAS)

Swiss-Korean Call for Joint R&D Projects

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Company Company

R&D Inst/Univ R&D Inst/Univ

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Danke! Merci! Grazie! Grazia!

감사합니다!

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