CSEM is a research and technology organization (RTO) excelling in industrial innovation while preparing industry and society for the future. CSEM’s mission is to develop and transfer world-class technologies to the industrial sector, mostly in Switzerland, to reinforce the sector’s competitive advantage.
Their work aims to create synergies with established companies and motivates the launch of start-ups.
Strategy with an effect
CSEM is positioned as the foremost national player in the field of technology transfer. In this way, they explore new means of collaboration with academia and the economy, rendering favorable conditions for the technology transfer as required by the industries of tomorrow:
- Leveraging their excellence in integration and multidisciplinary research in the broad field of microtechnology to strengthen their differentiation.
- Intensifying their collaboration with Swiss academia and Swiss RTOs.
- Encouraging more entrepreneurs to create start-ups.
- Strengthening their position at the European level via the Heterogeneous Technology Alliance (HTA) as their preferred tool.
Within GENEX, CSEM develops and exploits a new wireless communication system deployed in the structural health monitoring market by providing RD services and licensing.