What impact does innovation funding have?
What happens after an innovation project has been completed or a start-up has received coaching? How many ideas are put into practice? And what longer-term impacts do they generate? The newly designed Innosuisse impact monitor makes these developments visible.
The Innosuisse impact monitor shows how the Swiss Innovation Agency’s funding instruments benefit companies, start-ups, research institutions and other organisations. It brings together the latest results from the 2023 to 2025 reporting years and presents them clearly and visually.
The monitor covers various Innosuisse funding instruments, from innovation projects and innovation cheques to BRIDGE, Innovation Boosters and Start-up Core Coaching. It shows, for example, whether innovations are implemented, new jobs are created, collaboration between research and industry continues, or start-ups successfully raise capital.
Who is the Innosuisse impact monitor for?
The results provide Innosuisse with a basis for reviewing and strategically developing its funding instruments. At the same time, the monitor offers policymakers, industry, the research community and interested members of the public transparent insights into the impact of innovation funding.
Users can directly access the key results, compare different funding instruments or explore specific topics and impact indicators in greater depth.
Depending on the funding instrument, the data comes from systematic surveys conducted at the end of the funding period and, in some cases, three years later, as well as from other monitoring data. The data sources and methods used are explained transparently in the monitor.
Why does Innosuisse measure the impact of its funding instruments?
Public innovation funding should create tangible benefits for the economy and society. For Innosuisse, it is therefore important to know not only which projects and organisations receive funding, but also what results from that support.
Impact monitoring makes these developments visible, from initial project results and knowledge and technology transfer to longer-term economic effects. It provides Innosuisse with a sound basis for further developing its funding instruments and ensures transparent accountability for the use of public funds.