Registration deadline: 31 March 2026

Nice that you are interested in participating in the Swiss Innovation Challenge!
If you have a product-, organisational, management-, process-, service- or business-modell innovation and you are:

• creative
• persistent
• ambitious
• open for new things

and ready to leave your comfort zone you've come to the right place. No matter if you are a start-up, an established company, a non-profit organization or a public administration: We actively support you and your innovation project in putting it into practice.

We offer you the full package with a value of up to CHF 60'000.-:

• Prize money up to CHF 32'500.-
• up to 6 coaching sessions with experts and practitioners
• 12 seminars, each 1/2 day in German and/or English (e.g. business planning, marketing and market entry, legal aspects, internationalization strategies or financing)
• extensive marketing and PR measures
• media attention
• Mentoring with experienced entrepreneurs
• Networking events

Take your future in your hands and fill out the application form, we will contact you!
Please note our conditions of participation at the bottom.

Conditions of participation

1. You are a start-up, a company or an institution (e.g. public institution, association) that is already established on the market or is newly entering the market.
2. You or your company are planning an innovation in the near future or you have taken an innovative step within the last two calendar years.
3. Only project teams whose company headquarters are in Switzerland.
4. An innovation idea can be entered in the competition once or repeatedly. Innovations that have already won a prize in the Swiss Innovation Challenge are excluded.
5. The innovation project must be submitted in one of the Swiss national languages or in English. The correspondence languages are German and English.
6. The maximum number of participants for the Swiss Innovation Challenge is limited to 100 innovation projects.
7. Applications for the Swiss Innovation Challenge will be reviewed by the office and an admission decision will be made. The Swiss Innovation Challenge team reserves the right to refuse participation without giving reasons or to exclude participants from the competition.
8. For the Second Pitch and the Final Pitch, a physical presence at the House of Business (HDW) in Pratteln is required.