The 2024 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg highlights the canton's booming life sciences sector, illustrating the fruitful collaborations between start-ups, established companies, competence centers and academic institutes. Innovations in pharma, biotech and medical devices reflect the dynamism of this regional ecosystem. The magazine explores current trends, highlighting Fribourg's role in Switzerland's Health Valley and its ability to attract talent and investment.

The construction sector in the canton of Fribourg is a significant employer, making a substantial contribution to the canton's GDP and employment. It benefits from a strong network of national and international companies, high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), clusters, centers of expertise, and research facilities, which give it an excellent reputation in Switzerland and abroad.

The digital transformation of the Fribourg economy is well under way. Since its emergence in the early 2010s, Industry 4.0 has gone from being a mere concept to an everyday reality for many companies in the canton, and an integral part of their development strategies. The 2022 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg looks at the already considerable impact and enormous potential of this fourth industrial revolution, using real-life examples drawn from the experiences of innovative firms, both big and small, based here.

“Nothing is lost, everything is transformed!” The bioeconomy takes this principle literally. Flax-based composite materials in Formula 1 racing car seats, chicken feathers turned into sustainable packaging and vanilla flavoring made from hazelnut shells: these are just a few examples of the innovative transformations happening in the canton’s booming bioeconomy sector and featured in the 2021 edition Fribourg Network Freiburg.

With a dense network of higher education and specialized research institutes, there is no shortage of grey matter in Fribourg. The canton also has a host of companies whose search for innovative solutions can benefit from this readily available brainpower. The 2020 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg takes a look at the win-win partnership between academia and industry.

Is there a recipe for economic success? In its 2019 edition, Fribourg Network Freiburg endeavors to answer this question by taking its national and international readers on a tour of the canton’s dynamic, multifaceted and trailblazing agrifood sector. Chinese language edition.

Is there a recipe for economic success? In its 2019 edition, Fribourg Network Freiburg endeavors to answer this question by taking its national and international readers on a tour of the canton’s dynamic, multifaceted and trailblazing agrifood sector.

The 2018 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg turns the spotlight on quality of life. Rather than relying on trite marketing clichés, the magazine lets businesspeople and others who have grown up in the canton or have made it their adopted home do the talking and explain why they have chosen to study, work or live here.

The 2017 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg takes a giant leap into the digital universe to examine how the canton’s higher education institutions and businesses are responding to the advent of Industry 4.0, big data and cloud computing.

Innovation is at the heart of the canton of Fribourg’s development strategy, and the focus of the 2016 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg. The magazine explores the topic from three distinct angles: new products, new processes and new markets.

Fribourg's educational institutions are not only forward-looking, they are also innovative and have their finger on the pulse of the economy. The 2015 edition of Fribourg Network Freiburg examines the ties between industry and academia, and looks at the different facets of this winning relationship.

The 2014 edition of Freiburg Network Freiburg showcases the canton’s commitment to the Blue Economy, which itself is based on circular economy principles, by zooming in on three key sectors: energy and construction, mobility and transport, and industry and services.