To facilitate the arrival of a new company and its development, LAKE GENEVA REGION has set up an important assistance programme that consists in supplying everything a company needs to work in western Switzerland.

The Swiss Confederation, the cantons and their services for economy promotion are the actors that can assist you in matters :

• business plans
• taxes exemption
• allowances for research and development
• contributions for investments and technological training
• setting-up of financial and business partnerships
• work and residence permits
• searches for premises, terrains, scientific and technological parks

• contacts with financial and venture-capital institutions
• necessary commercial and social contacts and access to networks
• searches for housing, schools, services, transport, health,
• help for negotiations with the state, i.e. federal, cantonal and municipal authorities
• exports, with, notably, the existence of a risk guarantee that protects the interests of the exporting enterprise

Furthermore, a loan guaranteed by the canton, a pick-up charge for bank interests and grants paid for the training or the improvement of collaborators can be obtained from the cantons. One may note that the government has developed a policy of low taxes, applied all over the territory.