Despite the difficult economic climate, many researchers from ETH Zurich founded a company last year. The university recorded no fewer than 24 new spin-offs in 2009 – the most ever in a single year. Four of them are involved in the “cleantech” industry and deal in environmentally friendly technology.
ETH Zurich can look back with satisfaction on a year with many company foundations. In 2009 the already very high number of 23 new spin-off foundations in 2008 was even exceeded. Of the 24 new firms, ten were established in information and communications technology, three each in electrical and mechanical engineering, and a further three in services. Researchers from ETH Zurich also founded one spin-off each in advanced materials, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, micro- and nanotechnology, and medical devices. The new spin-offs’ range of products include flying robots, injections on the nanometer scale and a method for measuring the melting properties of ice cream.
Original Article: 24 new companies founded
