DESCRIPTION OF THE REGION Business transfer SWITZERLAND informative folder The Canton of Grisons is located in the Southeast of Switzerland. With it’s capital city of Chur Grisons offers a high quality of life and work to 196’600 inhabitants. The combination of the Alpine surrounding, the for investors existing of higher education and research institutions, and a broad variety of small and mid-sized companies serving world markets makes the Grisons unique. Important characteristics: • Central location: Direct on the north-south axis Zurich, Stuttgart/ Munich–Milan • Population: More than 1.2 million inhabitants in the region within 1 hrs drive from Chur • Students in focus sectors: 60,000 students at the universities, universities of applied science and technical colleges in the region within 1 hrs drive from Chur • Languages: German, Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic. English is the established business language. • Most important Swiss tourism regions: Engadin St. Moritz, Davos Klosters, Arosa, Lenzerheide, Flims Laax Support contact point The University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur was founded in 1963 and is a member of the Universities of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (FHO). This public federal institution is comprised of Support contact point six faculties, each offering Bachelor, Master and further education programs. With approximately 1600 students, HTW Chur provides an excellent learning environment with an intimate atmosphere, modern facilities, and small, student-oriented classes. The HTW Chur offers bachelor, master and further education studies in the six faculties of “Civil Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Engineering and Architecture”, “Information Science”, “Management”, HTW Chur Schweizerisches Institut für Entrepreneurship (SIFE) “Media and Communication”, “Technology” and “Tourism”. Comercialstrasse 22 CH 7000 Chur (Switzerland) contact: Prof. Dr. Frank Bau +41/81/2863-998 Our service for transnational business transfer E-mail: [email protected] On behalf of the Canton of Grisons the HTW Chur is hosting a SME www.sife.ch center offering a variety of services to businesses in the region, such as www.htwchur.ch innovation support, strategy development, and business transfer. This services are combined with the Swiss Institute for Entrepreneurship Research (SIFE) which is doing applied research and business services in the focus areas Digital Strategies, Internationalization and Innovation. HTW Chur is also cooperating with KMUnext (http://www. kmunext.ch/). KMU next is a national platform for business transfer. Netzwerk KMU Next Bahnhofstrasse 16 5600 Lenzburg (Switzerland) contact: Jörg Sennrich +41/62/520-7620 E-mail: [email protected] www.kmunext.ch.