The Ypsomed Innovation Fund Foundation aims to motivate innovative and entrepreneurial teams or individuals to include market needs in their scientific work and to translate their developments into products or services on the market. The work presented should therefore contain innovative and economically feasible processes, methods, products or services.
The Ypsomed Innovation Award is endowed as follows:
1. Prize: CHF 50 000.–
2. Prize: CHF 30 000.–
3. Prize: CHF 20 000.–
The winners of the Ypsomed Innovation Award 2022 announced
The innovation presented must have been predominantly developed by a university and must meet the objectives of the award donor. Students, assistants, lecturers as well as research and work teams of universities based in Espace Mittelland with the urge to become entrepreneurs or newly found companies which have merged from this environment and would like to implement a new project are invited to participate.
The Ypsomed Innovation Award can also be awarded to a consortium that shows how an extraordinary output has been achieved collectively.
Conditions of participation (PDF 40KB)
Projects that can be submitted are products, services, own innovations, doctoral and diploma theses as well as project and semester papers in German, French or English.
The jury evaluates the submitted work and selects the winners. The jury’s deliberations are confidential.
The jury evaluates the project dossiers received. The authors of the short-listed projects will be invited to a presentation to the jury between mid-November and mid-December. Subsequently, the jury decides on the three winners and invites them to the award ceremony. The award ceremony takes place in January at the PwC New year’s reception in Berne.
The decisions of the jury are irrevocable. By registering for the competition, the participants unconditionally accept these regulations. Any legal action is precluded. Projects that have not been awarded a prize will be rejected without justification.
Before the award ceremony, the project contents are absolutely confidential. Except for the joint communication during the award ceremony, all project content will be treated confidentially.
The Ypsomed Innovation Award promotes innovations and entrepreneurial activities in Espace Mitteland. With the prize money, the Ypsomed Innovation Fund supports the step into independence or further growth steps. This is impressively demonstrated by examples form recent years.
machineMD
Diagnosis of various illnesses by analysing the movements of eyes and pupils with a Virtual Reality Headset.
Fredrick Johnson Joseph (picture)
and Dr. David Bervini
SurgeonsLab
A Realistic Microsurgical Simulator for Brain Surgeries.
Dr. Samuel Zürcher and team
Certus Diagnostics
Molecular rapid test platform for reliable on-site detection of specific pathogens.
Simon Michel
CEO Ypsomed Holding AG
Brunnmattstrasse 6
3401 Burgdorf
Schweiz
Lukas Frösch
Director Entrepreneurship
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Patrick Schär
CEO
TecMed AG
Technikumstrasse 2
3400 Burgdorf