Survey will measure Impact of Swiss High-Innovation Startups

According Kauffman Foundation US studies prove that startups have a higher impact on job creation, economy and innovation than older companies. There are no statistics yet proving that Swiss startups have the same impact.

Every Co-founder of an innovative Swiss startup established between 1998 and 2012 that fills out our questionnaire helps the startup ecosphere, future founders, investors, supporters, politics & science to take better decisions in the future, says the startup support service Rollfeld on the intro page of the survey that will be sent out by email to about 2000 startups in the next few days.

Thesis at University of Berne
The authors say they will respect privacy and only publish aggregated data, says author Lea Wirth who takes care of statistic data analysis and interpretation of the survey. Wirths bachelor thesis is supervised by scientific advisor Jonas Zeller from Institute for Finance Management IFM at the University of Berne.

As motivation to achieve a high response rate founders filling out the questionnaire completely (15-25 min) latest by Sunday, Oct 6th, 2013, may win a new Apple iPad.

Broad range of Supporting Partners
Rollfeld, that manages the survey project, says the following partners did contribute with support, research grants or contacts: Economic Development Canton of Zurich, CTI Commission for Technology & Innovation, Gebert Rüf Foundation, i-net innovation networks, IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen and Swiss Start-up Monitor.

Innovative start-ups that don’t get an invitation but like to take part in the survey can contact Rollfeld at http://www.rollfeld.ch

More about IFM research publications at the Website of the institute.

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