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  • New companies strengthen life sciences in the Basel region

    New companies strengthen life sciences in the Basel region

    Basel Area Business & Innovation, the agency for location promotion and innovation promotion, supported a total of 36 companies with their relocation in 2024. According to its annual report, 26 of these are active in the life sciences. The companies come from 16 countries, 24 from Europe and six each from the USA and Asia.

    In his press release on this annual report, Christof Klöpper, CEO of Basel Area Business & Innovation, emphasises that his agency’s efforts to expand the life sciences industry to the entire economic region are bearing fruit: “Foreign companies that settle here are increasingly choosing the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Jura as a location in addition to Basel-Stadt. This enriches our life sciences cluster immensely.”

    This is thanks to the expansion of innovation areas such as the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area with its three sites in Allschwil BL, Novartis Campus and Jura. It is also pleasing that companies from other sectors, such as ICT, are increasingly settling in such innovation areas. The press release also mentions that Basel Area Business & Innovation was ranked number one among smaller European cities in February 2025 by fDi, the investment portal of the Financial Times, in its Top 10 rankings of European Cities and Regions of the Future 2025.

    Overall, the number of new companies founded last year was slightly lower than the previous year at 67, but remains in line with the long-term average. The location promoter describes the track record of the two local start-up incubators BaseLaunch and DayOne as impressive. Investments totalling 478 million were channelled into start-ups that were supported by them. According to the companies that set up or founded in 2024, they aim to create more than 700 additional jobs in five years.

  • ICT and life sciences dominate company settlements

    ICT and life sciences dominate company settlements

    The Conference of Cantonal Directors of Economic Affairs (VDK) reports that the promotion of Switzerland as a business location by the federal government, the regions and the cantons can look back on another positive year. Once a year, the VDK compiles statistics on the number of new foreign companies settling in Switzerland. According to the VDK’s current survey, a total of 265 foreign companies settled in Switzerland in 2022. They have already created a total of 1199 new jobs in the first year of operation. Over the course of three years, this figure is expected to rise to over 3100 jobs.

    “Even though, with 265 companies, 17 fewer companies were settled compared to the previous year, the development of settlements has remained relatively stable over the last 10 years,” writes the VDK. And as in previous years, most of the new settlements in 2022 are active in the ICT and life sciences sectors. Regionally, around half come from the USA, Germany or France.

    The focus on future technologies set out in the national location promotion strategy 2020-2023 is to be maintained in the years 2024 to 2027, the VDK explains further in the press release. Such companies also contribute “with their innovative know-how in their network to strengthening regional and local value creation as well as the SME landscape”. In addition, the VDK points to the cooperation of the Confederation and the cantons with the official Swiss organisation for export promotion and location promotion, Switzerland Global Enterprise, and its representations abroad managed as Swiss Business Hubs.

  • Switzerland attracts more foreign companies

    Switzerland attracts more foreign companies

    The location promotion of the Confederation, regions and cantons can look back on another positive year, explains the Conference of Cantonal Economics Directors ( VDK ) in a statement . Once a year, it compiles statistics on the number of new foreign companies settling in Switzerland. According to the latest VDK survey, a total of 282 foreign companies settled in Switzerland in 2021. This exceeded the previous year's figure by 62 settlements.

    The jobs created by the settled companies in the first year of operation increased year-on-year by 20 percent to 1396 jobs. With 3566 jobs forecast for the third year of operation, the high level of 2020 could be maintained, writes the VDK.

    Most of the companies that came to Switzerland in the year under review are active in the life sciences and ICT sectors. In terms of origin, around half of the new settlements come from the USA, Germany and France.

    The focus on future technologies set in the current strategy 2020-2023 of the national location promotion has proven itself so far, the VDK explains further in the communication. She also emphasizes the "successful cooperation" between the official Swiss organization for export promotion and location promotion, Switzerland Global Enterprise , and its representations abroad, which are run as Swiss Business Hubs, with the regions and cantons. According to the VDK, this cooperation is organized in such a way "that the Swiss location can be optimally marketed abroad as 'Team Switzerland'".