ETH Feasibility Lab

ETH Zurich’s Feasibility Lab accelerates innovation processes by helping companies and students to test disruptive ideas quickly and in a structured manner.

Embedded within the Vice-Presidency for Knowledge Transfer and Economic Relations (VPWW), the Lab provides the structural and content-related framework for programs at the interface of science and application.

The focus is on the annual Exploration Program (October to March), which acts as the heart of the lab: Here, interdisciplinary student teams work together with industry partners to validate early innovation projects.

The program creates an explorative environment in which new technologies are tested, further developed through targeted prototyping and validated at an early stage with the help of lean de-risking – the ETH approach to structured risk reduction in early innovation phases.

The Feasibility Lab accompanies this process with intensive support, coaching, workshops and methodological know-how – and thus creates a learning environment in which entrepreneurial thinking and technological excellence come together.

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