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Innovation

Innovation is what drives our sustainable management and together with the associated processes is an integral part within Swiss Prime Site's corporate and sustainability strategy. This enables us to implement innovation as an overarching, integrated principle across all our business fields. We therefore work together with highly motivated start-ups and creative entrepreneurs. Together, we are intensifying our innovation processes and are driving forward pioneering technologies and business models.

INNOVATION CULTURE

In order to offer our clients sustainable and innovative products and services with the greatest possible added value, we rely on an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and the creativity of our employees in every phase of the real estate life cycle. On the basis of a group-wide anchored information and issue management, innovation processes are driven forward and the innovative strength of Swiss Prime Site is increased. Several times a year, we organize innovation workshops on megatrends and future topics. The aim of the workshops is to develop concrete ideas and to anchor innovative thinking in the corporate culture of Swiss Prime Site. We are convinced that innovation can only succeed with a holistic view of the entire real estate lifecycle. As such, our goal is to break down the traditional innovation silos in the real estate sector and integrate innovative technologies along the entire value chain. Sustainability is key and must be seen as an overarching innovation goal.

Corporate Ventures

In collaboration with startups we aim to drive forward innovative concepts, scalable business models and technological solutions, with a primary focus on the B2B sector. Our contribution to this:

  • We offer start-ups direct access to the real estate sector and the real estate environment.
  • We act as a sparring partner and contribute technical skills, financial resources as well as a wide-reaching network.
  • We provide versatile test environments and platforms.
  • To ensure optimal market and customer access, we make our Group-wide ecosystem available. 

Future Board

The Future Board is the innovation panel of the Swiss Prime Site Group and facilitates the operational implementation of group-wide innovation activities on the basis of our sustainability goals. The interdisciplinary committee brings together experts from Swiss Prime Site and the Group companies. The board drives the implementation of bottom-up innovation and ensures a seamless transfer of know-how and innovation to the Group companies. It further analyzes mega and market trends, develops future scenarios and creates the required infrastructures, products and services. The focus lies on the following five focal points:

  • Circular Economy & ConstructionTech
  • Smart Building
  • Culture of Experimentation & Culture change
  • Making data usable
  • Impact measurement & Corporate Ventures Development

Our network

As a member of a variety of networks and through our partnerships, we are committed to exchanging knowledge and experience in the Swiss start-up landscape.

venturelabStartup Days start global Swiss ICT Investor Club swissproptechstartupticker.ch

Contact

[Translate to Englisch:]

Bastian Zarske Bueno

Head Group Corporate Ventures & Innovation

Our Vision

Together, we provide unexpected, impactful and forward-looking impetus in the competitive environment and consistently align our activities with the dynamic user needs in order to achieve our leadership aspirations.

What we have achieved so far

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Decarbonisation, net zero, buildings as power plants – making the reduction pathway a reality

Innovation smooths the way for sustainable executive management at Swiss Prime Site – and is firmly entrenched in our strategy. This enables us to implement innovation as an integrated principle across all our business fields. This is more important than ever in light of our climate target of «net…

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The real estate sector in the metaverse: a risk with real opportunities

Tech companies are investing billions in creating the next generation of virtual worlds. As part of this, real estate companies could look to expand upon their current business models in a targeted way. Yet not everything that is technically possible is likely to lead to success.

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The healthy building

Health-consciousness, which has been increasing over recent years, has been greatly heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is placing new demands on real estate. After all, in Switzerland people now spend up to 21 hours a day indoors. It is important to take this multi-layered change in…

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Living spaces

«There is craftsmanship and passion behind it»

Together with the startup Rüedu, Swiss Prime Site is bringing fresh, local produce into urban neighbourhoods. Customers can enjoy around-the-clock shopping in mobile wooden containers.

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Logistics real estate? It’s logical, really.

The real estate industry has been catering to the growing demand for logistics properties for some time now. This trend has been further accelerated by greater mobility and general digitalisation in society. But it was not until the start of the current decade that a real gold fever began to emerge…

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Perspectives

The circular economy is more than just recycling

As the leading real estate company in Switzerland, Swiss Prime Site is committed to sustainability and assumes responsibility for its actions, the environment and society. An innovation workshop held in September 2020 examined the question of how Swiss Prime Site’s business models could do more to…

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For the living spaces of tomorrow

We work together with start-ups to intensify our innovation process and drive forward pioneering technologies and business models. Our Startup Accelerator Programme provides a platform that brings together start-ups, specialists from Swiss Prime Site and our network for a two-day event where they…

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Ideas for success

For Swiss Prime Site, innovation is a key driver for sustainable business. By staging innovation workshops, the company aims to anticipate the requirements of stakeholders early on and create added value for them. A report on the most recent innovation workshop on the subject of «changing values».

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Co-creating the digital future of real estate

The start-up Tower360 has partnered with Swiss Prime Site Immobilien and Wincasa to develop a data-driven, vertically integrated letting and asset management platform on which all relevant data for property owners, managers and marketers is compiled centrally on dashboards and can be edited…

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Living spaces

Innovation and property development in dialogue

Properties should be sustainable and districts vibrant. The cities of the future are not only technologically smart but also more socially cohesive and greener. What role does innovation play in the successful and sustainable development of living environments?

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Anticipating future trends with start-ups

The one billion venture capital threshold for Swiss start-ups was broken in 2018. Switzerland has a lively and highly successful start-up scene, clustered in the cantons of Zurich, Vaud and Zug. A variety of accelerator, pitch and hackathon events, conferences and awards ceremonies are all signs of…

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Innovation – expecting the unexpected

Innovation is part of human DNA and has been around forever. Technological change has always had a tendency to be disruptive and has led to economic, societal and environmental upheaval in the past. That was back when start-ups were known as «young companies» and venture capital was called «risk…

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Mixed Reality makes construction plans clear and tangible

Mixed Reality enables the digital visualisation of construction plans, which can be displayed in a layer over reality at the click of a button. This is made possible by the software ‹sphere›, developed by holo|one. Swiss Prime Site tests and develops the technology together with Sven Brunner and…

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Seeing the future while still in the present

«X-Wing» and «Millennium Falcon» instead of «Amsterdam» or «Nice». When meeting rooms are named after spaceships rather than cities and the corners of each office are adorned with huge Lego models from the Star Wars universe, these are clear indications that one is visiting the Zurich head office of…

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Increased information reduces vacancy rates

The phenomenon has become widespread. As ever more industries are affected by disruptive developments, the markets in which most companies operate are now being transformed at breathtaking speed.

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