China is eyeing at Idiap’s innovation environment
A Chinese delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China had meet with Swiss representatives for innovation. Idiap was among them.
On the margins of the Davos WEF, the Venturelab presented in Zurich the assets of Switzerland in terms of start-ups and innovation. Among ETHZ and EPFL, the Idiap Research Institute presented the strengths of its own start-ups and tech transfer.
With a highlight on biotechnologies, the delegation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China was especially interested by Idiap’s biometry skills, as well as by its start-ups, such as Biowatch and Eyeware. “I was surprised to see that the members of the delegation were already aware of the existence of Idiap”, explains the Institute director, Hervé Bourlard.
Venturelab : https://www.venturelab.ch/
Biowatch : https://biowatchid.com/
Eyeware : https://eyeware.tech/