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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. It happened without us realizing at the time. Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3