innovation valley

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Swiss News - Num. 2002, Juin 2002

Verzasca Valley.

Best Feature: A river valley sprinkled with quaint Ticino villages offering a ...... Museums: *Mill of Frasco In the 19th century, the village of Frasco was a small but important crafts center for the upper valley-- thanks to its ovens, mills and sawmill, which ...

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Swiss News - Num. 2006, Janvier 2006

Valley of the Giacomettis: at the southern end of the wide-open Engadine valley, with its string of sparkling lakes, we cross the Maloja Pass and plunge into another world. Swiss News explores a remote valley and the family of famous artists it inspired.

A series of dizzying switchbacks that challenge even the daring driver leads to the narrow Val Bregaglia, the smallest of the Italian-speaking valleys in the canton of Graubunden. This is a land of ...

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Swiss News - Num. 2002, Juin 2002

Swiss still patently inventive.

The number of patents being filed in Switzerland is falling steadily, but that does not mean innovation is dying. Some of the latest Swiss inventions ...... But those who exhibited in Geneva were just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to innovation in Switzerland. Most were private individuals or ...

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Swiss News - Num. 2008, Avril 2008

Transforming a village into a hotel: in the battle against the 'cold bed' tourism phenomenon that's reduced much of the Engadine Valley into a series of ghost towns, one small village is taking a unique approach to keep itself vibrant. Swiss News travelled to the valley to find out more.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The valley of the Engadine is best known for the glamorous ...... As the train enters the Prattigau Valley, stopping at every sleepy village, I leave my ...... The village Vna, my final destination, is a tiny village of 70 souls, perched on a sunny mountain terrace some eight kilometres further north, lust like other villages in the isolated valley, Vna is threatened by the continual migration of ...

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Swiss News - Num. 2007, Avril 2007

Solothurn--where keen innovation builds a fine reputation: from an entrepreneurial point of view, the canton of Solothurn is a very attractive choice thanks to its central location, fine companies, qualified workforce, favourable tax regulations, modest production costs and specific strategy for industrial and commercial development.

... The landscape of Canton Solothurn has many delightful attractions including the Jura with its meadows, valleys and gorges, and the peaceful rolling landscape ...

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Swiss News - Num. 2002, Juin 2002

Menacing masks: Every February in the Lotschental valley the Swiss step out of character and dress up like wild men.

... But every February at Carnival time you can see them in Lotschental, a remote valley in the Valais. A parade of identation 100 or ...... Mask market Tschaggata used to be a small private matter in the valley, but these days outsiders are quite welcome, The ...