MTEC Foundation

The MTEC Foundation aims to support innovative and relevant research and education projects at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich.

Awarding of grants from the Research Promotion Fund

All professors, researchers, and students at D-MTEC are eligible to submit a grant application to the Foundation. Applications must include academic and financial justifications. In particular, applicants shall provide information on:

  • Description and rationale of the proposed project
  • State of the art in the relevant field
  • Applicant’s own contribution in the relevant field
  • Project plan
  • Relevance for the macroeconomy and/or business administration
  • Specific intended project outcome
  • Project budget, broken down by own contributions, third-party funds, and requested funding.

The application must be submitted using the .

For additional requirements, please refer to the Download Regulations on the Awarding of Grants from the Research Promotion Fund. (PDF, 191 KB)

MTEC Foundation Board

The MTEC Foundation Board is the ultimate governing body of MTEC Foundation and comprises the following members:

President

  • Dr Martin Folini

Board Members

  • Désirée Heutschi Keller
  • Prof Dr Georg von Krogh
  • Elisabeth Mitter
  • Dr Christina Seyler
  • Dr Martin Stöckli
  • Matthias Zurfluh

Managing Director

Contact

Anwaltsbüro Felix Tobler

Schifflände 5
Postfach 110
8024 Zurich
Switzerland

Supported Projects

Since 2006, MTEC Foundation has invested 2.5 million Swiss francs in D-MTEC research projects listed below.

Current Projects

 

Baumgartner Melanie

Feel It, Name It | Bodily Sensation Mapping – A Scalable VR Application for Accessible Mental Healthcare

Daniele Maurizio

A Unified Framework for Real-Time Macroeconomic Reanalysis and Forecasting via Probabilistic Graph Neural Networks

Löwhagen Nils

Beyond Classical Limits : Quantum as an Emerging Technology in Operations Management

Ollier Joseph

Frontiers in AI : From Generative to Agentic Recommender Systems

Previous Projects

Navigating Economic Growth and Environmental Limits:
Exploring Alternative Growth Strategies for Swiss Companies 

Julia Bachmann | Catharina Bening

At Switzerland's Technological Frontier: A Comprehensive Assessment of Emerging Risks and Opportunities in Science and Industry

Sebastian Heinrich

The Role of Empathy in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Empathic Voice Assistants in Healthcare

Ertugrul Behlul Uysal

A Cognitive Flexibility Training for Adaptive Decision-Making in Leadership

Zorica Zagorac-Uremović

The Swiss Innovation Explorer: Using web-scraping and text-mining to analyze the Swiss innovation ecosystem in real-time

Michael König

Assessing clean fuel technology innovation ecosystem in Switzerland

Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez

Electric Trucks in Switzerland: Electricity Demand Impacts and Flexibility

Siobhan Powell

Food Waste Reduction in Switzerland – Rationales & Interdependencies

Julia Bachmann | Catharina Bening

Market versus Optimum Diversity in Open Economies

Ruobing Huang

Building a Sustainable Construction Industry: Towards a Circular Economy Ecosystem

Lucas Miehé | Sophie Führer

Cognitive Foundations of Adaptive Decision-Making: Qualitative Data to Better Understand the Effects of an Experimental Training Intervention

Jan Richner | Zorica Zagorac-Uremovic

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