W6

Win-Win for Science and Industry by an Efficient Knowledge and Technology Transfer "WTT W6"

The transfer of knowledge and technology (WTT) is part of the government's innovation poltics. The goal of these special actions is on one hand to foster the ability of univerities to transfer knowledge and technologies into industrie (Push-process), but on the other hand also to give the incentive to industry for a collaboration with universities and to communicate their needs in knowledge and technology (Pull-process). Here, the government wants to give impulses to increase the efficiency of the WTT-system in Switzerland.

WIthin this government's initiative of promotion, various associations exist, from which "W6 Mittelland" is one. The collaboration between industry and universities should be intensified and enlarged by the professionally managed WTT-associations. The associations will focus on:  

• intensifying the industry's demand for universities' knowledge and for research results;
• enabling industry to identify existing knowledge and to specify future requirements;
• intensifying contacts between university and industry, in particular for SME;
• optimizing the universities' ability of transferring their knowledge to industry;
• a common problem solving between universities and industry.