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ResponseCategoryInterviewee type
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VS seed fund providing capital + servicesCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Cantonal fund for seed investmentCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Cantonal investment fund to support local entrepreneursCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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BCVs should support entrepreneurs and be less risk averseCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Create leverage by multiplying the effects of investment : double on private investment, promote succesful fundraisesCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Launch of thematic funds to support VS industryCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Provide growth capital to projects who have proven their worthCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Do not allow banks to ask for personal garantees to make corporate loansCapital:Direct investmentIndustry
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Create a VS "Société de placement de capitaux" to support local projectsCapital:Direct investmentInnovation support
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VS "sovereign fund"Capital:Direct investmentInnovation support
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Financing of prototyping by the stateCapital:Direct investmentInnovation support
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VS version of the innosuisse investment fundCapital:Direct investmentTraining
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Train people on fundraising - or fundraising pros as a serviceCapital:Facilitate access to capitalIndustry
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Facilitate access to venture capitalCapital:Facilitate access to capitalIndustry
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Access to a network of local investorsCapital:Facilitate access to capitalIndustry
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Enable co-investment by multiple players facing the same challengeCapital:Facilitate access to capitalIndustry
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Facilitate access to VCs "not within our range at the moment"Capital:Facilitate access to capitalIndustry
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Facilitate access to private investors (Zermatt, Crans, Verbier)Capital:Facilitate access to capitalInnovation support
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Access to angels + UHNWI who live at 1500+m and are not connected to entrepreneurial projectsCapital:Facilitate access to capitalInnovation support
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Network of UHNWICapital:Facilitate access to capitalInnovation support
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Create Venture Capital dynamicCapital:Facilitate access to capitalResearch
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Help with closing research financing dealsCapital:Facilitate access to capitalResearch
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Hire a "mediator" able to introduce projects to investorsCapital:Facilitate access to capitalResearch
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Need an investment / Venture capital ecosystemCapital:Facilitate access to capitalTraining
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Actively match projects and capital / resourcesCapital:Facilitate access to capitalTraining
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Help innovators with raising money for their projects : writing, administrative procedures, budgeting, etcCapital:Facilitate access to capitalTraining
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Facilitate access to "first investor"Capital:Facilitate access to capitalTraining
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Grants and loans to multiply the effect of fundraisingCapital:Grants & LoansIndustry
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Install fiscal incitations to innovate and invest in innovationCapital:Grants & LoansIndustry
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Remove cadaster taxCapital:Grants & LoansIndustry
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Change wealth tax (industrial assets listed as wealth)Capital:Grants & LoansIndustry
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Access to a competitively priced energyCapital:Grants & LoansIndustry
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Support projects with tangible achievements rather than potential (startup needing cash to fulfill a big order vs subsidy to develop a technology with no clients)Capital:Grants & LoansInnovation support
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State garanteed loans, more interesting than a grant or subsidy because it imposes discipline, risk management and high engagement on the recipient Capital:Grants & LoansInnovation support
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Pay grant/loan money gradually as predefined milestones - installed and reviews by a committee of entrepreneurs - are reached by the projectCapital:Grants & LoansInnovation support
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Fiscal incentives to innovateCapital:Grants & LoansInnovation support
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Quickly available seed capital (donation)Capital:Grants & LoansInnovation support
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Share machine costs with industrial playersCapital:Grants & LoansTraining
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Help startups get endorsement / references from local ecosystem : first local client, govt. endorsementCommunication:EndorsementIndustry
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Cantonal authorities must act as a detonator : support projects to other followCommunication:EndorsementIndustry
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Help companies get certified (ISO, CE, FDA) to gain more credibility and have access to better international clientsCommunication:EndorsementIndustry
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Help boost credibility via endorsement from established playersCommunication:EndorsementIndustry
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Act as a garantor towards banksCommunication:EndorsementIndustry
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State should endorse good innovative projects to boost their credibilityCommunication:EndorsementInnovation support
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State should be the first client of innovative projectsCommunication:EndorsementInnovation support
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Bring leverage to good projects : endorse them, promote themCommunication:EndorsementInnovation support
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Bring more than capital to startups : guaranteesCommunication:EndorsementResearch
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Make industrial jobs more sexyCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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The image of industry must be changed, currently perceived as dirty, tiring, oldCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Increase cool factor / attractivement of local industries as they integrate new technologyCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Change the public perception of industrial jobsCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Promote dual cursus (academic + technical) to parentsCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Rebrand industry, explain what we do, what we bring to the region, efforts made to be more sustainableCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Change the perception of industrial jobs with trainees and their parentsCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Make industry cool and fun again, Change the image of the sectorCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Make industrial jobs more sexyCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Change the perception of industrial jobs with parents who make the calls about their children's career choicesCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingIndustry
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Change the perception of parents towards mechanical jobsCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingTraining
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Communicate in a way that makes industry desirable to younger people, make them dreamCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingTraining
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Promote industrial jobs, Make mechanical jobs coolerCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingTraining
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Promote SMEs and industrial jobs towards children and their parentsCommunication:Industrial sector rebrandingTraining
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Show that industry follows social changes (innovation, environmental responsibility)Communication:Industrial sector rebrandingTraining
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Promote new ways to think and solve problems : we have the tech, we need a new mindsetCommunication:Innovation CultureIndustry
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Organise "public hearings" (for example : in US senate) where people can explain what they do to the politiciansCommunication:Innovation CultureIndustry
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Develop a culture of innovationCommunication:Innovation CultureIndustry
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Change culture to accept failureCommunication:Innovation CultureIndustry
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Improve sense of urgencyCommunication:Innovation CultureIndustry
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Improve VS innovation maturity and litteracyCommunication:Innovation CultureInnovation support
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Develop VS visibility in the mediaCommunication:PRIndustry
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PR opportunities are not leveraged (ex : H55), it should be someone's job to find and promote those storiesCommunication:PRIndustry
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Show the existing ecosystem more : projects, quality of life, accessibilityCommunication:PRIndustry
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Promote VS industry to the world, raise awareness about the local know howCommunication:PRIndustry
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Promote more actively VS achievements / strenghts (ex : 2nd largest chemical canton behind only Basel)Communication:PRIndustry
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Anchor local innovation in the zeitgeist -> energypolis should surf the sustainable energy wave all the timeCommunication:PRIndustry
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Tell the story of all the innovation that happens in VSCommunication:PRIndustry
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Put forward entrepreneurial and industrial achievements more activelyCommunication:PRIndustry
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Spread information beyond the center of the canton, in a uniform wayCommunication:PRIndustry
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Put forward innovative VS projectsCommunication:PRIndustry
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Celebrate local successes to give them media visibilitsCommunication:PRIndustry
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Better promotion of local industrial know how and initiativesCommunication:PRIndustry
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Need for a service to help with storytelling and communication : find the stories, capture them, spread themCommunication:PRIndustry
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Evangelise the new generation on industrial jobs on the channels they followCommunication:PRIndustry
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VS values are becoming fashionable again : human scale, close to nature, traditions, health, use that to establish Valais in the mediaCommunication:PRIndustry
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Name "industrial ambassadors" who promote industrial know how / stories nationaly and internationalyCommunication:PRIndustry
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Help innovators with their PRCommunication:PRIndustry
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Continue communication efforts on industry (VW promotion doing a good job)Communication:PRIndustry
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Help innovators raise awareness about their projects through PRCommunication:PRInnovation support
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Put the spotlight on local SMEs doing incredible productsCommunication:PRInnovation support
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Launch a media for promotion of innovationCommunication:PRInnovation support
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Raise awareness on existing ecosystemCommunication:PRInnovation support
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Promote local projects in VS and beyondCommunication:PRInnovation support
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Show that the energy transition is an opportunity for ValaisCommunication:PRResearch
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Help promote quality research, so that it is not only recognised by other researchers but by the public as a wholeCommunication:PRResearch
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Bring more than capital to startups : PRCommunication:PRResearch
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Improve marketing of innovative projectsCommunication:PRResearch
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Communicate more on innovation and industrial achievementsCommunication:PRTraining
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Hire a story teller who has a macro view of the ecosystem and tells the stories. Aim for national / international coverageCommunication:PRTraining
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Raise awareness on VS industry's contribution to SwitzerlandCommunication:PRTraining
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Communication kit that companies can reuse to promote VS to foreignersCommunication:Rebrand image of VSIndustry