Projects

Innovation Management 

• "ROIS Alpenrhein", Regional open Innovation System Alpenrhein
  cooperation partner: Amt für Wirtschaft und Tourismus Graubünden and Regierung FL, Regierung SG
  Project team: Urs Jenni und Andreas Ziltener

• "Ankertechnologie", CTI Feasability study, anchor technology for protection fencies, in cooperation with the IBG of the HTW Chur and SMEs
  Project team: Urs Jenni und Michael Isler

• "Antriebsgurten", CTI-Project concerning Innovative drive track for crawler-mounted vehicles, cooperation partner: HSR, EMPA, NTB and 3 SMEs
  Project manager: Urs Jenni

• "CoPs and sustainable innovation", Project concerning practitioner-networks as an instrument for sustainable innovation
  Project manager: Lutz E. Schlange

• "R&D management cooperation model", CTI/Seco project (WTTCHOst), Case Study Research
  Partner: Seco and various SMEs
  Project team: Andreas Ziltener, Urs Jenni, Michael Isler

• "Open Innovation Systems", analysis of open innovation systems
  Project manager: Andreas Ziltener

Start-up & Growth 

• "Corporate Entrepreneurship Barometer", CTI-pre-project, Project team: Frank Bau (coordination) and Kerstin Wagner
• "Success Factors of Corporate und University Spin-offs"  Cooperation partner: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Chair of Technology and Innovation Management; University of Munich, Chair of Economic Geography; Project team: Frank Bau, Flurin Trombetta, Katharina Becker, Kerstin Wagner (coordination), Thomas Gassmann
• "Gründungsbarometer- entrepreneurial climate"  Project team: Katharina Becker, Michael Isler, Marina Kirchen, Franz Kronthaler, Kerstin Wagner (coordination).
• "Promotion of spin-offs"
  Partner: YES, SECO, Kanton Graubünden
  Project team: Urs Kappeler (coordinator) and Michael Isler 

Internationalisation

• "Cultural Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe", CTI-project
  Partner: Dias Management GmbH, Alevo AG, Ascent Swiss Business Management AG, Kommunikation Ost-West, Hanser und Partner AG, Holcim Group Support Ltd.
  Projevt team: Christian Hauser, Flurin Trombetta, Samuel van den Bergh (ZHAW)  
• "Corruption prevention and CSR-strategies for Swiss SMEs operating abroad", CTI-pre-project
  Project team: Christian Hauser and Katharina Becker
• Born Global", CTI-pre-project, comparison of born global companies
  Project manager: Ralph Lehmann