New Course: How to Attract Foreign Companies?

New Course: How to Attract Foreign Companies?

Within the framework of the University of Geneva, a new executive course about ”How to attract and retain foreign companies in Switzerland?” will start in October 2016.

This course targets:

  • Private companies (law firms, accounting firms, tax specialists, etc.) interested inconverting occasional foreign-based clients into regular Swiss-based clients
  • Multinational companies interested in justifying their presence in Switzerland.

In this course, we will go over all the reasons why a company should choose Switzerland.

  1. Reasons specific to key industrial sectors (or clusters) such as medtech, biotech, ICT, micro/nanotech, cleantech, banking & trading, international trading, data center, etc.
  2. Reasons specific to functions such as European headquarters, international sales, logistics, R&D, intellectual property, procurement, etc.
  3. General and other reasons such as labor law, social security, costs, stability, taxation, regulatory aspects incl. technical norms, the “Swiss made” designation, etc.

Besides, the main strengths & weaknesses of Switzerland’s key competitors as well as “how to mitigate Switzerland’s main weaknesses” will be highlighted.

Plus : http://ovsm.unige.ch/ateliers-formations/attract-foreign-companies.html.

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