Over the past decade, Swiss higher education institutions have initiated a number of measures to foster an entrepreneurial mindset and support students and researchers with commercializing their innovative ideas. 

Despite the rapidly growing ecosystem around academic entrepreneurship and innovation, the exchange among the various players has been largely informal and unstructured.

The Swiss Academic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (SAIEF) will strengthen the exchange and knowledge transfer around academic innovation and entrepreneurship support. SAIEF brings together all those who support students and researchers on their entrepreneurial journey, incl. innovation advisors, program managers and coordinators, entrepreneurship lecturers, and more. 

SAIEF is a collective initiative by a group of dedicated innovation champions from various Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences, and moves forward from the Swiss Forum for University and Student Innovation initiative.