Facing the challenges of our time
CSEM is a public-private, non-profit Swiss technology innovation center. CSEM enables competitiveness through innovation by developing and transferring world-class technologies for the industrial sector.
CSEM at a glance
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Neuchâtel, CSEM is an internationally recognized innovation specialist with over 600 employees across six locations in Switzerland and more than 200 registered patents. We develop disruptive technologies with a high societal impact in the fields of precision manufacturing, digitalization, ultra-low-power electronics, optical elements, AI, and sustainable energy. We then transfer these innovations to industry partners in a variety of sectors, including renewable energy, healthcare, watchmaking, and aerospace, or encourage start-up creations.
As a public-private, non-profit organization, our mission is to support innovation in Swiss companies and strengthen the economy through ongoing collaboration with leading universities, research institutes, and industrial partners.
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Patent families
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Industrial clients per year
Research programs
Digital technologies: We help convert digital dreams into real products by providing state-of-the-art IoT, wearables, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and industry 4.0 solutions.
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
We help convert digital dreams into real products by providing state-of-the-art IoT, wearables, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and industry 4.0 solutions.
PRECISION MANUFACTURING
We work with sensors, lasers, robotics, and additive manufacturing (AM) to scale these technologies into solutions that push precision engineering to new heights, while minimizing cost and waste.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Our innovations are driving the wider adoption of renewable energies such as smart grid automation and storage, enabling increased energy savings and enhanced PV panel performance.
News and Events
CSEMnext: Additive fertigung als Game Changer
(German only) Additive Fertigung verändert die Industrie grundlegend: Beim CSEMnext-Event in der Ostschweiz präsentieren Experten Trends, innovative Anwendungen und spannende Zukunftslösungen für zahlreiche Branchen....
18 March 2025
Photonics and radio frequency simulation for industry
Florian Dubois from CSEM will talk about "Design and statistical analysis of thin film lithium niobate Photonic Integrated Circuit Component...
19 March 2025
START Summit 2025 in St.Gallen
Europe's largest early-stage Startup event: Book an appointment with CSEM expert David Schmid via the START Summit App. Booth and info about...
20 March 2025 — 21 March 2025
CSEM as Hotspot for Bioconvergence
To address issues in several industries, bioconvergence applies techniques from biology, engineering, medicine, agriculture, computer scienc...
Published on 11 February 2025
3D-printed pipe segment with integrated heater and sensor
AHEAD focuses on the development of 3D-printed pipe segments with integrated heating and sensing functions, designed for in situ measurement...
Published on 21 January 2025
Meet our happy customers
Marcel König
Head of Research & Development
In the first year of our collaboration with CSEM we saw that it was a very special relationship because CSEM’s scientists are not only expert and flexible, they also understand that the processes and technologies they develop must be capable of being mass-produced.
Daniel Paris
Medical Director, Head of the Department of Medicine
Working with CSEM allowed us to develop and jointly validate a new diagnostic microarray/ sensor device designed for use in low-resource settings. To better promote point of care solutions for everyday life, synergistic partnerships between health experts and technology providers are both mutually beneficial and highly relevant.
Gilad Scherpf
Senior Director Aviation Training
CSEM's expertise in vision systems and artificial intelligence was crucial, as was its ability to steer such a complex project, involving partners with different expertise and in different locations during the COVID pandemic to such a successful conclusion.
Scott Hovland
ISS Programme & Exploration Department, ESTEC, Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations
The spirit of collaboration that CSEM has shown has been excellent and I would specifically like to commend the center.
Edouard Barret
Project and Sales Manager Stadler Rail
CSEM’s state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms and creative and solution oriented approach enables us to further digitalize our maintenance activities and take them to the next level. Which is important to the long-term fulfilment of our promise to clients: "We make sure it rolls!"
Hansjörg Keller
Senior Principal Scientist
It was a great pleasure and extremely rewarding to work with CSEM on the development of the first automated human skeletal muscle microphysiological lab system, which screens for the drug compounds that regulate muscle functions, such as force and fatigue.
Nick Hayek
CEO
The new Bluetooth chip we have developed with our long-standing partner CSEM has exceptional features specially designed for small connected objects and above all, of course, watches.
Mario Urbisaglia
Team Manager R&D
CSEM was the ideal partner for this project: expert in intelligent systems and algorithms, pragmatic and flexible when we had to change the data collection plan, and fast. This was our first project with CSEM—and it won’t be the last.
