摘要：

Biotechnology is now a rapidly growing sector in Switzerland, both in the academic and in the industrial environments. The creation of biotech research and industry networks and the creation of specific biotech agencies by the Swiss Priority Programme Biotechnology have significantly contributed to this very positive development. In the academic sector, important structural and institutional improvements have been achieved and promoted. In addition, technology transfer activities- including the creation of new biotech spin-offs and start-ups - have been successfully promoted by the SPP. This review also presents some of the most important biotech-relevant activities and contributions by partner organisations and gives a short outlook on the funding situation after 2001, when the SPP BioTech will be terminated. The Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) will then have a key function for the further development of biotechnology in Switzerland.

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