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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may sup­port the con­struc­tion of a Swiss In­nov­a­tion Park sub­ject to the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

a.

the in­nov­a­tion park serves a great­er na­tion­al in­terest, com­pet­it­ive­ness, re­source ef­fi­ciency and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment;

b.

in or­der to main­tain a bal­ance between the re­gions, it is from the out­set es­tab­lished on sev­er­al re­gion­al sites, which are co­ordin­ated and which work with the high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions;

c.

it can­not be real­ised as part of the or­din­ary sup­port activ­it­ies un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1;

d.

it com­ple­ments the stand­ard fund­ing and sup­port activ­it­ies un­der Sec­tions 2 and 4 in an ap­pro­pri­ate man­ner;

e.

it makes an ef­fect­ive con­tri­bu­tion to the net­work­ing of in­nov­a­tion activ­it­ies in Switzer­land in both in­sti­tu­tions and re­gions.

² The Fed­er­al As­sembly shall ap­prove the Con­fed­er­a­tion’s sup­port of a Swiss In­nov­a­tion Park with a simple fed­er­al de­cree.