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INARTIS NETWORK is one of the eight NTN (National Thematic Networks) supported by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), the Swiss agency for the promotion of technology and innovation. The INARTIS NETWORK mission is to create value and jobs across the Swiss Life Sciences economy through innovation. INARTIS NETWORK, a not-for-profit organization based in Lausanne, focuses on fostering trans-disciplinary R&D projects to deliver “Innovations Made in Switzerland”.
To increase the competitiveness of the Life Sciences sector and to cater for our ever-growing companies, INARTIS NETWORK concentrates on the multi-disciplinary interfaces by basing itself on a model which calls upon “Community Sourcing” and, in particular, on a largely unexploited resource in Switzerland: our senior citizens.
The compartmentalization of knowledge is a true barrier to innovation. At the present time, new products which anchor the competitiveness of companies are the result of both technology integration and multi-disciplinary knowledge.
If the large companies have to struggle to implement this multi-disciplinary approach, it is primarily due to over-specialization and organizational fragmentation. However, when it concerns start-ups and SME’s, this struggle is mainly due to a lack of expertise and scarcity of resources.
We at INARTIS NETWORK train highly specialized individuals striving to implement a multi-disciplinary vision. In concrete terms, this is reflected in insufficient incremental innovation to change the paradigms which are the result of a stalling of innovation. In order to respond to this situation and to strengthen the positioning of our industry, INARTIS NETWORK proposes placing itself at this interface and thus cater for our ever-growing companies.
How can we integrate so many skills and abilities? By drawing on the experience of a community. Refusing to render a support set-up even more complex for extremely diverse innovation, INARTIS NETWORK proposes a radically new approach, complementary to existing initiatives by resorting to ‘Community Sourcing’ and one of the largely neglected resources in Switzerland today ; the wealth of EXPERIENCE OF ITS SENIOR EXPERTS.
In order to guarantee a distinct interaction flow between the country’s main R&D institutions and the economic fabric (notably of our SME’s), ‘Innovation Consulates’ will endeavour to knit the Swiss regions more closely together.
In other words, these are not just a small number of individuals who will be of service to our economy and our SME’s, but rather, thousands of professionals who will contribute to this targeted initiative organized by INARTIS NETWORK.
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