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Who can participate?
Don’t hesitate to publish your ideas, challenges, or patents for sale or licensing on our platform. We run two cycles per year, in spring and autumn.
Once published, each proposal has 6 weeks to attract partners and form a team to carry out a feasibility study.
You can also express your interest in joining other proposals — including through crowdfunding contributions.
How to submit your idea:
1. Join the ecosystem
Become a member of the ecosystem and participate in the creation of a competitive Swiss microtechnology industry!
- Become active on the platform
- Follow the training courses offered and access the tools
Free access to the platform
Member of the association to participate in strategic decisions: between 2’000 and 5’000 CHF/year or more 😊
2. Post or follow ideas, challenges, patents
Join the platform and promote your innovation ideas, your challenges, your patents so share or to sell.
Attract partners and experts, become a partner in a proposed idea yourself, or buy a patent !
- Accelerate your innovation culture
3. Participate in funding
Join the collaborative funding effort or acquire a patent and/or license directly through the platform.
Become part of the project team and use the funds raised to validate the idea up to the proof of feasibility stage (6–8 months).
Then, decide whether and how you wish to continue with the project.
- Each team member contributes to the funding, helping to reach the required budget together.
- Crowdfunding serves as proof of market interest in the idea.
COST: min 500CHF or 10% per idea and for patents: to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
Ideas looking for partners
Completed
Dual detector for non-destructive testing in the field of aeronautics
C. Meylan
Check feasibility of light annealing to pave the way for new applications in the field of non-destructive testing thanks to a new dual detector.
4
8500 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Looking for financing
Predictive Management of Unwanted Particles in Laser Printing and Processing
S. Le Coultre
Real-time monitoring of spatter in laser processes to predict and reduce defects in 3D printed and laser-worked parts using a compact in situ sensor.
0
0 CHF / 15000 CHF
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Looking for financing
Electrodeposition of Gold Alloy with Tungsten from Aqueous Solutions
P. GAY
We propose a hard electrolytic gold coatings alloy with tungsten. Applications in watch industry, jewelry, electronic device.
3
10000 CHF / 28000 CHF
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Looking for financing
Precision Ultrasonic In-Situ Measurement of Workpiece Thickness and Geometry
R. Roth
Feasibility study on integrating ultrasonic in-situ metrology into machine tools for precise thickness and geometry measurement of clamped workpieces.
1
2000 CHF / 18000 CHF
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Completed
Galvanic deposition of metallic coatings onto titanium
O. Banakh
A new electrochemical coating method of titanium parts, combining a pretreatment step followed by an electrochemical coating, will be developed.
5
9500 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Completed
Temperature Sensors Based on PVD-Deposited Thermoresistive Thin Films
S. Le Coultre
PVD-engineered temperature sensors from advanced thermoresistive materials.
5
9000 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Completed
Smart tool-workpiece contact detection to enhance process reliability in cutting
R. Roth
Evaluation of tool-workpiece contact position detection based on force measurement to increase process capability in turning applications.
5
9500 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Draft
Become a member of the new CoBooster association
J. Tosetti
Make a pledge for your annual membership and become a member of the association — this will grant you voting rights at the General Assembly.
0
0 CHF / 80000 CHF
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Completed
AI-based Quality Assessment of High Quality Surfaces
R. Herger
Reliable, repeatable and quantitative quality characteristics for the assessment of high quality surfaces via the use of computer vision.
5
7000 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Completed
Use augmented and virtual reality to reduce machine downtime on production lines
J. Rollier
We offer you to study the current AR and VR solutions to support production companies in remote maintenance and remote troubleshooting.
3
6000 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Completed
Metallic glass 3D sintering to complex shapes
K. Papis
We will develop a new 3D shaping process based on fast sintering and a lost-mold concept, to yield near-net-shape structures of bulk metallic glasses.
6
7000 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Published
Laser Marking Color Identification in Place of TiO2 PVD Sputtering
H. Mourot
The concept is to create a chromium rich thin-film oxide by controlling the heat input-controlled laser marking that can be seen as different colors.
2
2000 CHF / 5000 CHF
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