Post by Dr. Valerie Schuster

The #Swiss FoodTech Ecosystem: small, but mighty. What makes it so special? The 2025 report by Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley and Porsche Consulting highlights the... 🔹 innovation infrastructure: world-class universities (ETH Zürich , EPFL, Agroscope), 3% of GDP invested in R&D, and global leaders like Nestlé, Bühler Group, Givaudan, Tetra Pak and dsm-firmenich 🔹 powerful connection between corporates, academia & startups collaborating to turn research into scalable solutions as well as institutions like the Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley, Innosuisse and MassChallenge Switzerland (not mentioned in the report, but I see them as an important factor) who facilitate this collaboration 🔹 access to capital, talent & stability: strong domestic investors, political predictability (and a favourable tax system) and a big talent pool leading to (among other things) the creation of + 65% new food tech startups compared to 2021 🔹 combination of local farming roots and a global innovation & trading hub: Swiss precision, food quality expertise, and sustainability leadership There is a reason why Switzerland is ranked #1 in IMD's World Competitiveness ranking. So what's next? 🔹 Functional nutrition: Food as medicine, preventive healthcare 🔹 Smart farming: efficiency, reduce emissions, climate resilience (although the report also sees lost momentum in robotics) 🔹 Food intelligence: traceability, digitalisation / AI, automation 🔹 Next gen ingredients Stay tuned...and the viewpoints by Alexander Mathys, Federico Matteini, Fabian Wahl, Mathieu Dizin, Antonio Iannone, Rafael Barros, Tom Howze and Dominique Mégret are worth reading! https://lnkd.in/euuaQ5Zm