Health Valley

The Health Valley is a name given to the bio-medical research centres, industry, start-up companies and services (including the university hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva) in the Lemanic Arc (in French-speaking Switzerland).[1][2]

The name of the Health Valley is inspired by the Silicon Valley. According to L'Hebdo, there are 750 biotech and medtech companies (20'000 employees) in the Lemanic region.[1]

According to Fathi Derder, Patrick Aebischer (president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) actively promote the creation of a Health Valley in the Lemanic Arc.[3]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 (French) Health Valley, L'Hebdo, 2010.
  2. ↑ (French) "In situ. Health Valley. Tour d'horizon de l'innovation médicale en Suisse romande", In vivo, number 3, July 2014, pages 6-13.
  3. ↑ (French) Fathi Derder, "L'avenir de l'innovation suisse passe par l’Arc lémanique", Le Temps, Wednesday 15 February 2012.

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