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Synopsis: Countries, cities, regions: Switzerland:

In a survey conducted in 1998 among companies of 12 manufacturing sectors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 2 Nevertheless,

significance, satisfaction and suggestions for further research perspectives from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Strateg. Change 14 (2005) 1 13.16 R. Phaal, C. J. P. Farrukh, D. R. Probert, Technology roadmapping A planning framework for evolution and revolution, Technol.

For a largely similar scenario, called Swiss Europe, see 18.29 Emerging countries, e g. China and India, might also become important competitors,

and illustrates its potential virtues through an application to urban water management planning in a Swiss region.

, A. Klinke A j. Markard A m. Maurer b, A. Ruef a a Department Innovation research in Utility Sectors at The swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland

b Department Urban Water management Research at Eawag, Switzerland c Institute of environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland d Competence Center Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems

at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation research ISI, Germany e Technology and Society Unit of The swiss Federal Institute of Materials Science and Technology (Empa

Switzerland a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history:

the Regional infrastructure foresight method (RIF) and illustrates its potential virtues through an application to urban water management planning in a Swiss region (Kiesental.

P o box 611, CH 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland. Tel.:++41 44 823 56 73; fax:++41 44 823 53 75.

We will present empirical evidence to support our claims from the experiences of implementing the RIF method in The swiss sanitation sector.

Section 4 presents the results from the application of RIF in the Kiesental region in Switzerland.

and tested in a transdisciplinary research project that empirically focused on The swiss urban water management sector. Following the model of action research 56,

we want to illustrate the individual steps of the procedure by presenting experiences gained in a specific pilot case in The swiss sanitation sector. 4. 1. Strategic planning in The swiss sanitation sector The swiss sanitation sector can be considered a success

/Technological forecasting & Social Change 76 (2009) 1150 1162 Based on a national analysis of The swiss sanitation system 69 and a call for participation in innovative strategic planning processes,

Two further case studies implementing the RIF approach were carried out in Switzerland: one in a rural area with an urgent need for investment in an old treatment plant.

/Technological forecasting & Social Change 76 (2009) 1150 1162 Acknowledgements The project Regional infrastructure foresight was funded by The swiss National science Foundation within the National research Program 54 Sustainable development of the Built Environment.

Eckhard Störmer is a project leader at the Social science Research Department Cirus (innovation research in utility sectors) at The swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag.

Willi Gujer is a professor for urban water management at The swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich and a member of the directorate of Eawag.

Hans Kastenholz is a senior researcher at the Technology and Society unit of The swiss Federal Institute of Materials Science and Technology (Empa.

Andreas Klinke is a group leader for governance of infrastructures at Cirus at Eawag and a lecturer at The swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich.

and is a lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich. Annette Ruef is a scientific researcher at Cirus at Eawag and led the case study Kiesental. 1162 E. Störmer et al./

, International organisation for Standardization, Switzerland, 1999.19 International organization for Standardization (ISO), Risk management vocabulary guidelines for use in standards, ISO Guide, vol. 73, International organisation for Standardization, Switzerland, 2002.20

Risk analysis of Technological Systems, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995.21 Center for Chemical process Safety (CCPS), Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 2nd Ed. AICHE, New york, USA, 1992

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland. Peter De Smedt is based at the SVR Research centre, Brussels, Belgium.

Having led the former Swiss contribution to PASTILLE (EESD-FP5; Promoting Action for Sustainability Through Indicators at Local Level in Europe), INTELCITIES (IST-FP6) and REFORM (Rok-FP6),

He is a Board member of The swiss Academic Association for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF Swiss Expert for the International Energy Agency (IEA) Demand-Side Management (DSM) Task XXIV on Behaviour Change,

and Swiss Management Committee member for the COST Action TU1104 on Smart Energy Regions. Furthermore, he contributes to knowledge transfer from research into teaching.

Vicente Carabias is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: cahu@zhaw. ch Peter De Smedt has a background in ecological system analyses.

The swiss NSF accounts for 35 of some 41 papers with Swiss funding; Swedish funding similarly shows up for 42 papers,

Especially notable leaders are Swiss Federal Institute oftechnology, Lausanne (also appearing asepfl École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,

The swiss Federal Institute of technology is certainly the dominant single institution researching DSSCS. 4 Especially in recent years,

Cites share Cites share Pubs share Pubs share through 2008 2009 onwards through 2008 2009 onwards(%)CAS 6. 0 19.9 19.5 25.3 Swiss Federal Institute of technology (EPFL) 49.3

The next six countries are South korea (267), Japan (192), Taiwan (181), the USA (167), Switzerland (101), and India (81.

The 30th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, St gallen, Switzerland, 2012.38 S. Bankes, Exploratory modeling for policy analysis, Oper.

France and Belgium are marked with a dotted circle in the upper right quadrant of Fig. 1. Between these clusters is a Germanosphere cluster (Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg),

In contrast, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan are mentioned as examples of CME.

of supportive members from Europe, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and the USA. The project engaged participants from these and many other countries.

Proceedings from the IMS2020 Summer School o Sustainable Manufacturing, 26 28 may 2010, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2010.28 E. Dall, C. Cagnin, Regional foresight a case

Belgium and Switzerland (Habeggeer 2009) while other countries are building up scan-based policy documents (Finland (Academy of Finland and TEKES, 2006), Canada (Smith,

http://www. ingentaconnect. com/content/beech/spp Impact of Swiss technology policy on firm innovation performance: an evaluation based on a matching approach Spyros Arvanitis, Laurent Donzé and Nora Sydow This paper investigates the impact of the promotional activities of The swiss Commission of Technology

and Innovation (CTI) on the innovation performance of the supported firms based on a matched-pairs analysis of 199 firms supported by the CTI in the period 2000 2002.

which is the most important government agency for the promotiio of innovation in Switzerland, was investigated in this study.

and a public partner, is fundamental to The swiss technoloog policy and, as a main promotional policy, to our knowledge, is unique in Europe.

As such, it T Spyros Arvanitis is at KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;

Laurent Donzé is at the Faculty of economics and Social sciences, University of Fribourg, 1700 Friboug, Switzerland; Email:

Nora Sydow is at the Economic Research Department, Credit suisse, 8070 Zurich, Switzerland; Email: nora. sydow@creditsuiissecom;

This study was supported financially by The swiss Federal office for Professional Education and Technology. Impact of technology policy on innovation by firms Science and Public policy February 2010 64 avoids the functional form restrictions implicit in running a regression of some type.

We collected innovation data for the promoted firms similla to those already existing for a sample of innovating firms of The swiss Innovation Survey 2002 (Arvanitis et al.

Swiss technology policy There is a long tradition in Switzerland of refraining from directly funding business firms for innovation activities.

) This tradition is based on a wide Spyros Arvanitis is a senior researcher at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and a lecturer in economics at the ETH Zurich.

Luarent Donzé has been an associate professor at the Univerrsit of Fribourg, Switzerland since 2002. Before this appoinntmen he was a senior researcher at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich.

He teaches and researrche on statistics and econometrics, especially on measures of economic inequality, the construction and maintenance of panels of firms,

Before this appointment she was a researcher at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich and responsible for the KOF Enterprise Panel.

She holds a master's degree from the University of St gallen, Switzerland. Impact of technology policy on innovation by firms Science and Public policy February 2010 65 consensus not only among political actors but also among organizations representing business interests.

According to the results of The swiss Economic Survve (Arvanitis et al. 2007), less than 10%of Swiss firms perceive a lack of public R&d promotion to be a strong,

or very strong, obstacle to their innovation activities; this percentage has remained practically constant since 1990. As a consequence, only a few fiscal initiatives to support research

and a public partner, is fundamental to Swiss technology policy. To the best of our knowledge, it is unique in Europe as a main promotional policy. 2 Methods of evaluation of measures of technology policy Evaluating the outcomes of subsidized projects is difficult,

and a public partner, is fundamental to Swiss technology policy. To the best of our knowledge, it is unique in Europe as a main promotional policy Impact of technology policy on innovation by firms Science and Public policy February 2010 66 either matching approaches (as in this paper) or selecctio

Seven of them reffe to European countries (Austria, Germany, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland), six of them apply matching approaches

2002), Switzerland Programme of promoting use of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technologies (CIMT)( CIM Programme, 1990 1996) 463 Selection correction:

Switzerland Programme of promoting use of CIMT (CIM Programme, 1990 1996) 463 Matched-pair analysis (several alternative methods) Change in CIMT intensity (1990 1996):+

additional information on the firms whose projeect were subsidized that was collected through a survey of the subsidized firms based on a shortenne version of the questionnaire used in The swiss Innovation Survey 2002;

and the data for firms that reported the introduction of innovations in the period 2000 2002 in The swiss Innovation Survey 2002.

These firms received a shortenne version of the questionnaire of The swiss Innovattio Survey 2002.3 185 firms completed the questionnaire (see Table A1 in the Appendix to this paper for information on the response rates by scientiifi field.

A further 14 subsidized firms were identiffie among the participants of The swiss Innovation Survey 2002.

The 996 firms that participated in The swiss Innovattio Survey 2002 and reported the introduction of innovations in the period 2000 2002 built the pool of non-subsidized firms from

This was the dominant group among subsidized firms in accordaanc with the importance of these capital goods industtrie for Swiss manufacturing with respect to generated value added,

which are on average the most innovative Swiss firms, are quite underrepreesente among the subsidized firms (4%),reflecctin the strong tendency of this branch of aboveaveerag investment in R&d.

electroonic and instruments reflecting the current structure of Swiss manufacturing. The‘bottom-up'principle applied by the CTI for allocating funds seems to be quite effective.

All this is also in accordance with the general principles of The swiss technology policy tending to be‘non-activist',providiin primarily for the improvement of framework condittion for private innovation activities.

200 499 employees Region of Lake Geneva 500 999 employees Midlands region 1000 employees and over North western Switzerland-0. 30 Other characteristics:(

0. 14) Continuous R&d activities 0. 40 Eastern Switzerland (0. 10) Central Switzerland Export activities 0. 43 Ticino (0. 11) Language

2001) for the role of framework conditions for the evaluation of industry university collaboratioons and Polt and Streicher (2005) for the evaluation of large programmes such as the Framework programmes of the Europeea Union. 2. For overviews of Swiss

Griessen and Braun (2006) deal with the problems of political coordination of innovation policies in Switzerland.

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Matched-pair analysis based on business survey data to evaluate the policy of supporting the adoption of advannce manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms, KOF Working Paper No. 65, July 2002.

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Andre's Belaunde, 36-4c, 28036 Madrid, Spain 4zhaw Zurich University of Applied sciences, Institute of Sustainable development, Postfach, CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland*Corresponding author.

ETEPS, EPTA Network, Eurasian Virtual Centre, Network TA in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are among the more conventional networks.

Joos, W.,Carabias, V.,Winisto rfer, H. and Stu cheli, A. 1999)‘ Social aspects of public waste management in Switzerland',Waste Management, 19: 417 25.

and ZHAW Zurich University of Applied sciences, Institute of Sustainable development, Postfach 805, CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland 4impetu Solutions, Vi'ctor Andre's Belaunde, 36-4c

and ZHAW Zurich University of Applied sciences, Institute of Sustainable development, Postfach 805, CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland*Corresponding author.

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