Autonomous Flying Robots – From the Lab to the Industry

Insurers are expanding their business model by placing more importance on services, distributing via platforms, increasingly collaborating in networks and developing the capability for data-driven offers. What do these developments imply for the priorities, role and profile of the future risk management function? We ...

The aim of the project is the development of a dynamic map of the supply region Winterthur. The map should depict the supply and use of health services in important dimensions (e.g., patient flows, health status and health behavior of the population). The dynamic map should serve as basis for answering important ...

This study examines what Swiss companies think about marketing automation, whether they use it, and how they use it. It is aimed at marketing and sales specialists involved in the process of automation and digitization. Around two-thirds of the 402 specialists who took part in the survey during the fall of 2020 work ...

In contrast to common video or telephone conference systems (e.g., MS Teams, Zoom), immersive virtual meetings provide for a digital space in which the participants can do more than just see and talk to each other. Additionally, they can move and engage in more complex forms of collaboration, e.g., manipulating ...

Matching impact investors with vetted and investable impact deals (SDG firms), through a regulated liquid primary and secondary financing market, presents a significant opportunity for SWISOX to become a “one-stop-shop” for impact investors. The research goal is to develop the necessary tools for a robust pipeline ...

Idéesport, a Swiss foundation with 50 employees and 200 part-time positions, has initiated an agile transformation with the aim of fostering the development of new services and products. The aim is not only to introduce agile teams and agile working methods, but also to work as a fully agile organization (based on ...

This project addresses the topic “Digitalisation and Automation principles for ATM”. Exploring the effect of, and opportunities for, distributed humanmachine situational awareness in en-route ATC operations is one of the main objectives of this project. Instead of automating isolated individual tasks, such as ...

The identification of optimal Sustainable Investing strategies is still hampered by a profusion of technical and methodological challenges. We propose to utilize patent data and AI to boost Green Finance to a new level of efficiency in mitigating global threats as climate change, and pollution.  ...

What role does IT management play in digitalization, and with what impact on organizational culture? In the Corona crisis, we observe that IT provided necessary solutions for contactless teaching "overnight." How did it accomplish this? Which cultural dispositions were critical to succeed in this respect? And what ...

Development of an assessment tool for economical interventions in the context of the COVID crisis, using the balance sheet approach.

When companies store their data in the cloud or share data with other organizations via the cloud, information security and data protection are based on trust, legal agreements and technical and organizational measures. "Confidential Computing" technology can ensure the confidentiality and protection of data in the ...

Kompotoi AG sells and rents toilets that separate with high efficiency solid and liquid human wastes (SHW, LHW). Currently Kompotoi pays to have its SHW recycled by a third company, up to 100t per year, and is considering to add this activity into its current business model. Kompotoi investigates various technical ...

The survey of 1929 adults in Switzerland in the period from 17 - 26 April 2020 suggests that a large majority of the population in any case or probably intends to a) install an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2, b) report infections in the app and c) comply with the app's request for contact reduction or ...