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The states that make up western Switzerland support a number of research centres that have contributed to advances in medical technology and enabling industrial techniques.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (www.epfl.ch) describes its mission as the pursuit of education, research, and technology transfer at international levels. Collaboration with industrial partners is a long-standing tradition at EPFL, which has a startup incubator and science park on campus.
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The Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (www.csem.ch) is active in micro and nanotechnology, microelectronics, systems engineering, and information and communication technologies. CSEM develops its own commercial ventures, and the institution’s applied business-oriented research has benefited the medical technology industry through the years.
Other poles of research in the DEWS region include the University Hospital of Lausanne (www.chuv.ch); the universities of applied sciences in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Jura, and Bern (www.he-arc.ch) and Vaud (www.heig-vd.ch); the Institute of Microtechnology (www.unine.ch/imt); and in Sion, in the centre of Valais, the Institute for Research in Ophthalmology (www.irovision.ch).
