A concentrated of assets!

Why invest in Switzerland and in the canton of Vaud? Here are ten good reasons for choosing our canton as the place for setting-up your activities

1. Our skilled labor and the motivation of the employees
2. The efficiency of our government
3. Our politics and our fiscal system
4. The quality of our infrastructure (health, energy, transport and telecommunications)
5. Our quality of life, our safety as well as our health system
6. Our system of training, our universities and our business schools
7. Our legislation on the scientific research and the quality of our institutions of research
8. Our protection of the intellectual property and the number of current patents
9. The collaboration between the university research and the industry
10. The productivity of our companies, our legal and regulating environement, as well as our labor market flexible and convenient to the development of the business.

The canton of Vaud it is also...

• The most popular choice to set-up its European or global headquarters
• 19 strategic real estate sites (400 hectares) for the development of new business activities
• 25'000 students and researchers: the biggest campus of Switzerland!
  
• 50 private schools, most of them have an international reputation
• Lausanne, olympic capital: International Olympic Committee headquarters and the presence of 25 international sports federations
• More than 400 hotels of any categories
• 2 centres of conference and exhibition
• University hospital of very high level
• Numerous of private clinics enjoying an international reputation 

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Development economic - State of Vaud (DEV)
Avenue de Gratta-Paille 2
P.O. Box 19
1000 Lausanne 22
Switzerland

Tel : +41 21 644 00 60
Fax : +41 21 644 00 79
E-mail : dev@dev.ch