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Find the Best Location for Your Business

The Economic Development Department can assist you in finding commercial space or land as you establish or expand your business.

The Canton of Neuchâtel supports the creation and development of businesses through supplementary financial assistance intended for projects that generate jobs or value within the canton.

The Department of Economic Affairs can provide financial support to help you meet your investment needs—whether to innovate, diversify, or sustain strong growth.

Financial Assistance: Types of Eligible Applications

Do you need funding to innovate, diversify, or support strong growth?
The Department of Economic Affairs can provide financial support for projects related to:

  1. Innovation – R&D, technology transfer, patent applications, intellectual property protection
  2. Diversification – New Market Development, Market Research, Performance Evaluation
  3. Development – Complex Certifications (MedTech, Aerospace)
  4. Brand Promotion – First Participation in Trade Shows and Visibility Initiatives

Funding Tools

The Department of Economic Affairs supports businesses by providing advice and connecting them with the entities best positioned to provide them with financing.

Innosuisse

Innosuisse applies the principle of subsidiarity: it supports innovative projects that would not be possible without funding or that are not realizing their commercial potential.

Finergence

Finergence is a foundation whose purpose is to provide material support for the launch of innovative, scientific, and technological projects.

Financial Assistance for Regional Development

As part of the New Regional Policy (NRP), the federal government and the cantons help Switzerland’s mountain, rural, and border regions promote their economic development.

Cautionnement Romand

Cautionnement Romand promotes economic development and job creation in the Romandy region through the provision of guarantees.

Do you have a project in mind?
Feel free to contact us.

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