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ETH transfer presents an extract of newsstories on licensing opportunities, annual statistics on newly filed patents and the Spark Award.
Statistics from the Annual Report 2024
The innovative capacity of Switzerland benefitted from the 141 inventions, 107 patents and 49 licenses produced in 2024. This continues the success of previous years. Annual Report 2024 of ETH Zurich
Congratulations to the Spark Award winners 2025
On 27 November 2025 ETH Zurich presented the Spark Award for the most promising invention, which resulted in a patent application in the past year. The criteria for the evaluation are originality, patent strength and market potential. The winning technology is:
POP-cycle: electrochemical recycling of organic pollutants into hydrocarbons and table salts
Inventors: Patrick T. Domke, Alberto F. Garrido-Castro, Bill Morandi
ETH transfer is a member of swiTT, the Swiss technology transfer association.
ETH transfer features in the swiTTreport. The annual swiTTreport is the most comprehensive analysis of the technology transfer activities of Swiss public research organisations. The report covers two main areas, a) research collaborations of the participating institutions with private or public partners, and b) the activities for the economic exploitation of research results from these institutions.
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