International Example 7 

Going Global in Business: Switzerland as a Place for Doing Business

    
Switzerland as place for doing business
•    Switzerland, a small but strong economy, the world’s most competitive and innovative economy
•    Switzerland as a location for global business
•    Import/export business China – Switzerland
 
Speaker:
Daniel Bont, Senior Consultant Asia Pacific, Switzerland Global Enterprise
 
Switzerland Global Enterprise has been commissioned by the Swiss government to gather the performance mandates of export, location and import promotion under one roof. It provides support to Swiss SMEs who are interested in exporting and links companies, experts and organisations around the world. www.switzerland-ge.com
Duration: 90 minutes
 
 
Zurich as a place for doing business  
•    Zurich, the economic capital of Switzerland
•    Zurich’s core competencies
       -     Finance & Banking
       -     Technology
       -     Research & Development
•    How to settle in Zurich
 
Speaker:
Markus Assfalg, Head Business and Economic Development, Division of the Government of the Canton of Zurich
 
The Business & Economic Development Division is the governmental agency and point of contact for companies interested in relocating to Zurich, individuals who would like to found a company, and resident companies requiring assistance from the cantonal administration. It aims at informing, accompanying, expediting and creating networks. www.location.zh.ch
Duration:90 minutes
 
 
Living, working and doing business in Switzerland
 
Speaker:
Wang Zhi, China Director at the Bern Economic Development Agency, a government
agency
Duration: 90 or 180 minutes
 
Cross-Border Business China – Switzerland  
China – Europe Corporate Finance Activities
•    China has accumulated (and will continue to accumulate) more financial resources than it can manage to invest in the country itself. Hence, it is an imperative need for China to look for industrial investment opportunities abroad.
•    By acquiring a European company, a Chinese company can speed-up, and save time as well as money, its entrance into a market with more than 400+ mio. people having a larger consumer power than China.
•    For a mid-size European entrepreneur, having a Chinese strategic partner or co-owner also represents a great door to get distribution of its products into Asean markets.
•    In certain sectors, many European companies do have a higher level of technology and/or products on the high-end of the price spectrum. A Chinese company may take years or decades of organic development to reach the same level. 
•    As competition among Chinese companies intensify, being an “early mover“ to expand into Europe enhances the very strategic standing of the company that moves first.
 
Lecturer:
Eduardo Schindler, Founder & CEO, 2thePoint, Zurich
Duration: 90 or 180 minutes
 
These units can be performed only in Switzerland.