Kickstart Innovation
Oliver Durrer is a seasoned professional in innovation and intrapreneurship, currently serving as Catalyst for Innovation & Intrapreneurship at SwissLEAP since August 2018, where advisory and mentorship roles empower leaders and organizations to foster sustainable growth. Durrer holds positions on the board of Nidwaldner Kantonalbank and serves as Co-Lead and Startup Coach for Youngpreneurs.org, promoting entrepreneurship among future leaders in Switzerland. With extensive experience in academia, Durrer leads the Innovation Challenge and teaches at the Executive MBA in Digital Leadership at HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich. Durrer also contributes as a strategic advisor for Socious, a business angel for Aflorithmic and Relai, and actively participates in various projects including Kickstart Innovation and DigiMeals. Educational credentials include a Master of Science in Business Economics from HEC Lausanne and additional training in digital currencies and leadership from notable institutions.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.