Innovation Zurich (innovation.zürich) is the City of Zurich's official innovation ecosystem platform, connecting startups, established companies, research institutions, investors, and public sector organisations to foster urban technology, sustainability, and social innovation. The platform serves as a central hub and navigator for Zurich's diverse innovation landscape, making it easier for entrepreneurs and innovators to find the resources, partners, and opportunities they need.
The platform provides comprehensive information about Zurich's innovation infrastructure, including co-working spaces, incubators, accelerators, research labs, and funding programmes. It profiles key players in the ecosystem and facilitates connections between complementary organisations, helping to overcome the fragmentation that can limit innovation in even the most resource-rich cities.
Innovation Zurich organises and curates events that bring together the innovation community, from large-scale conferences to focused workshops and meetups addressing specific technology domains or urban challenges. These events serve both networking and knowledge-sharing functions, ensuring that insights from Zurich's world-class research institutions reach the entrepreneurs and companies that can translate them into products and services.
The platform pays particular attention to sustainability and urban innovation, reflecting Zurich's strategic priorities around climate action, smart mobility, circular economy, and digital public services. By highlighting startups and projects working on urban challenges, Innovation Zurich helps channel entrepreneurial energy toward solutions that address the city's most pressing needs.
Innovation Zurich's role extends beyond information provision to active ecosystem development, working with the city government, cantonal agencies, and federal innovation bodies to design policies and programmes that strengthen Zurich's position as a globally competitive innovation hub while ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared across the city's diverse communities.