PARK TICINO
With the Innovation Park, we are creating in Ticino a unique platform for the collaboration of researchers, high-tech companies, and startups to spark inventive activities, develop and test sustainable and innovative ideas.
COMPETENCE CENTERS
Driving force of the Park
Serving as the Park’s core, Competence Centers perform innovation through collaboration with local research institutes and companies.
SITE
Towards the future district
The future operational headquarter of the Park will be located in the heart of the coming “Quartiere Officine” district developed in Bellinzona.
COMMUNITY
A perfect innovation hub
The spirit of coexistence and sharing of ideas will be the basis of the community and
will act as a stimulus for new innovations.
ABOUT
A shared project
The project was born thanks to a strong political will and the academic and industrial excellences already present in the region.
MISSION
ACCELERATE TECH INNOVATION
Enable and promote the creation of technological innovation clusters in a joint and open collaboration approach between the scientific and the business communities. Strengthen the local excellences with dedicated resources and the power of the Switzerland Innovation national network. Attracting innovative enterprises from abroad for their settlement in Ticino.
VISION
BE AN INNOVATION HUB
To be the place where enterprises, researchers and startups convene and interact to actively develop ideas into market-ready products, leading to the creation of highly skilled jobs and having a positive impact on the local economy.
VALUE PROPOSITION
THE PARK WILL GUARANTEE
EXCELLENCES OF TERRITORY
Ticino is a region with a high degree of innovation thanks to the excellences already present. To date, it represents the headquarter of top companies and high-level academic institutes of worldwide significance.
Life Sciences
- Immunology
- Oncology
- Cardiovascular and regenerative medicine
- Computational medicine
Mechatronics, Electronics, and Materials
- Robotics and automation
- Telecom / HF
- Virtual manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing
- Computational engineering
ICTs
- Big data analytics
- Automatic learning (Machine Learning, AI)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Software Engineering
- Fintech
FOCUS AREAS
THE SWITZERLAND INNOVATION PARK TICINO WILL HAVE ITS ACTIVITIES IN THE FOLLOWING FOCUS AREAS
LIFE SCIENCES
The excellence of the local research institutes in the field of biomedicine, immunology, oncology, regenerative medicine, pharmacology and computational methods create the perfect competences match for the translational research in collaboration with pharma, biomedical and medtech industries.
ICTs
Our computer science research excellence coupled with the distinctive know-how from the academia and from the IT and advanced technologies companies in digital media and communication forms the fertile ground for innovation.
MECHATRONICS, ELECTRONICS & MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY
Digital electronics, microelectronics, advanced human-machine interaction, additive manufacturing, hybrid materials just to mention some of our project-based and real-case experience of the partner research institutes.
NEWS
ALL ABOUT PARK TICINO
DANIELE TRAVAGLIA IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF SDBC
GRAND COUNCIL APPROVED MEASURES TO SUPPORT INNOVATION
Joining the Park
ARE YOU READY?
The motivation for companies to join the Park is represented by the privileged access to key people and knowledge, the active networking, and the availability of dedicated equipment and spaces: all factors which contribute to the acceleration of your innovation.
Are you a company that focuses on technological innovation?
Are you attracted by Ticino’s academic excellences?
Do you need privileged access to state-of-the-art knowledge and subject matter experts?
Have you thought to be part of a specialized network with the chance to exchange your project ideas with open-minded people and diversified backgrounds?
Do you need shared specific equipment and/or spaces for your R&D activities?