Federal Act
on the Promotion of Research and Innovation
(RIPA)

Pur­su­ant to this Act, non-com­mer­cial re­search centres out­side the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor are defined as in­sti­tu­tions with pub­lic or private fund­ing bod­ies which are not re­search bod­ies un­der Art­icle 4, whose aim is to con­duct re­search activ­it­ies and which meet the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

the fund­ing bod­ies and own­ers of the in­sti­tu­tion do not gain pe­cu­ni­ary ad­vant­age from its re­search activ­it­ies;

b.

the level and qual­ity of the re­search is com­par­able to that of re­search car­ried out by high­er edu­ca­tion re­search centres.