Innovation Successes

The University of Zurich is an attractive partner institution for public authorities, industry and other organizations. It concludes more than 500 research agreements every year.

The University of Zurich registers a new patent every two weeks.

The University of Zurich has more than 300 active patent families. In these ways, it makes the innovative ideas developed during its research available in the form of new products.

The University of Zurich concludes a new licensing agreement with a company every ten days.

The University of Zurich has more than 300 licenses in the areas of biotechnology, medical technology, information and computer technology and multimedia. You can see examples of licensed products here.

Researchers found a spin-off company every two months.

Since 1999, more than 100 spin-offs which develop or bring to market new products based on UZH technologies have been founded at the University of Zurich. University of Zurich spin-offs have a very high survival rate: 94% of spin-offs remain active after more than five years. A list of spin-offs founded at the University of Zurich can be found here.