InnoQube Swiss: Concrete innovation
The new Swiss innovation centre is called InnoQube Swiss AG, will be located in Chur and will provide jobs for around 250 people. Unique space for start-ups, industry and commerce is being created on over 6,000 square metres. In addition, the building is to become a hotspot for research and development.
The newly founded InnoQube Swiss is to become a new innovation centre. The project is "a measure from the private sector and not just a theory, which is intended to bring innovation and digitisation forward in the canton of Graubünden in a very concrete and practice-oriented way", according to the press release. The initiators Quinter, Frei, Zindel (see picture) are aiming for a cross-industry solution. The innovation laboratory for the mountain railway and tourism industry initiated by Bergbahnen Splügen-Tambo AG is also to be integrated into InnoQube Swiss.
Business plans obsolete
At InnoQube Swiss, previous procedures and traditional business plans are questioned and new, practice-oriented methods are developed. For this reason, it is no surprise that various start-ups are integrated into InnoQube Swiss. With their commitment, the investors want to promote entrepreneurship and establish an active culture of innovation, especially in and for the Alpine region. Young companies and innovative projects from all over the world are supported concretely and seriously with knowledge and network.
There will be close cooperation with start-ups in Silicon Valley. In addition to the focused economic proximity, InnoQube Swiss AG should also build bridges to universities, new forms of education and new job profiles. The topics of construction, energy and tourism are already mapped at the beginning. For example, strategic and operational cooperation with the HTW Chur is already being established.
Familiar faces
The people behind this major project are no strangers. Franco Quinter of the HMQ Group is Chairman of the Board of InnoQube Swiss AG. Also on the Board of Directors are Andreas Zindel, owner of Zindel United in Maienfeld, and Internet and communications expert Ivo "FiFi" Frei of Chur-based skipp communications AG.
