Does the Federal Budget‑Cut Plan Jeopardize Switzerland’s Research and Innovation Standing? Public investment in basic research is essential. But on its own, it is far from enough to safeguard Switzerland’s attractiveness as an innovation hub. 16.12.2025, Lukas Schmid, Noa Reggiani
What Drives Innovation: 7 Questions on Immigration, Research, and Economic Policy As Switzerland debates how to manage immigration and considers budget cuts in education and research, the U.S. is facing political pressure on its own research landscape. What this means for Switzerland. 27.05.2025, Patrick Leisibach
Runnings and Rankings Hannah’s Quicktakes on Switzerland in international comparison 29.04.2024, Hannah Wise
Growing Government Footprint Essential on the topic of government growth in Switzerland 05.09.2023, Eveline Hutter
Closing Supply Gaps in the Electricity Market Today’s electricity system offers little incentive to conserve. A combination of price incentives, individual supply levels, and automated load control could help. 25.07.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Taxes in the Age of Chatbots Digitization and automation are changing the economy. But that does not mean the tax system has to be reinvented. 24.04.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach
Economic Policy Responses to the Second Wave Analysis Enabling Structural Change, Even in Times of Crisis 20.11.2020, Jürg Müller, Valérie Müller, Marco Salvi
Irresponsible? The Role and Perception of Swiss Entrepreneurship in Times of Upheaval 02.11.2020, Marco Salvi, Peter Grünenfelder, Lukas Rühli, Patrick Dümmler, Samuel Rutz, Valérie Müller, Céline Neuenschwander, Matthias Ammann
More Clarity and Fewer Contradictions Technological openness will help Switzerland achieve its CO2 reduction goals 28.09.2020, Peter Grünenfelder
Cantonal Agricultural Policy Under Scrutiny Analysis Points of Leverage to Make Swiss Farming More Regional 03.07.2020, Patrick Dümmler, Mario Bonato
Artificial Intelligence and the Telephone Operator What switchboard operators can tell us about the future of work 27.02.2020, Marco Salvi
The New Zeitgeist of Technophobia Mounting obstructions to technical innovation 30.08.2019, Peter Grünenfelder
Libra, the global financial system, and Switzerland An overview of Facebook & Co's currency project 22.08.2019, Jürg Müller, Pascal Lago
Blockchain after the Hype An opportunity for the Swiss financial industry 04.06.2019, Jennifer Anthamatten, Pascal Lago
Direct Democracy Requires Continuous Improvement E-voting as a response to contemporary challenges 28.05.2019, Fabian Schnell, Matthias Ammann
In Terms of Digitization, Swiss Administration Scores Barely a “B+” Are federalism and digitization a contradiction in terms? 25.10.2018, Matthias Ammann, Fabian Schnell
What Digitization and New Technology Mean for Democracy Think Tank Summit Studies show there are both risks and benefits involved 27.02.2018, Haig Simonian
Electric Cars Are not Achieving the Best Results More emphasis should be given to cost-benefit analyses 30.10.2017, Peter Grünenfelder
Motivated Teachers Prevail Over Money In Switzerland, expenditure on education exceeds revenues 29.08.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer