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Who can participate?

Are you an inventor, a start-up, an SME, a large company, an association, a university? Are you active in Switzerland ?

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.

Access and registration to the ideation platform

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
  • Participate in community events

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 !

  • Open up to the ecosystem
  • Attract partners via the platform and your network
  • 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

Published

Syringes inspection demonstrator based on machine learning

T. Salomon

The idea is to build a rotating plate that will hold 50 syringes and have them facing a camera or 2 at some point of the rotation.

0
0 CHF / 5000 CHF
See the project
Completed

Effortless diamond turning for optical and mechanical functional parts

J. Diboine

A POC production of diamond optical and mechanical parts with singular properties is enabled by Synova's newly developed WJGL turning process.

5
10500 CHF / 5000 CHF
See the project
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
See the project
Looking for financing

AI Meets No-Code: Simplifying Robotics for Smarter Manufacturing

M. Jakob

Integrating AI into our no-code robotic interface to simplify programming, reduce errors, and improve technician learning for industrial automation.

1
2500 CHF / 20000 CHF
See the project
Completed

Sprayable and durable superhydrophobic coatings for large area applications

M. Baak

Develop superhydrophobic coatings for your specific needs in medical, electronics and large-scale-production.

4
10000 CHF / 5000 CHF
See the project
Looking for financing

Plasmonic Nanocomposites for the Detection of Pollutants in Water and Air

S. Le Coultre

Nanocomposite Thin Films for Pollutant Detection Using PVD–ALD Coatings on Glass and Flexible Substrates

1
2000 CHF / 30000 CHF
See the project
Looking for financing

Feedback loop control for L-PBF and EHLA copper coatings on titanium

E. Tosoratti

Using AI and multi-sensor data, we aim to optimize copper coatings on titanium to enhance surface quality and minimize defects.

1
10000 CHF / 15000 CHF
See the project
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
See the project
Published

Single digit nano-voxel ultrafast 3d-printing with space-time quantum coupling

P. Bradley

Down to single digit nanoscale ultrafast 3d-printing and more by leveraging quantum coupling and new micro-nano-fluidic physicochemical modeling.

0
0 CHF / 5000 CHF
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Looking for financing

Surface functionalization of the powder particles

O. Banakh

We propose a coating process for powder particles surface functionalization. Applications in pharma, powder metallurgy, SLM are envisaged.

2
12000 CHF / 28000 CHF
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Completed

Symbiotic cleaning and quality control in microengineering production

Y. Lopez de Meneses

Fully automated solution for cleaning and quality control of microengineering parts for a closed loop production line

7
10500 CHF / 5000 CHF
See the project
Completed

An alternative way to color watch hairsprings

J. Matthey

Let's make your watch hairsprings blue again!

4
6000 CHF / 5000 CHF
See the project
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