Tissot Economic Fund, Le Locle (Switzerland)

Some of the best projects emerge from matching scientific and business resources.
This is why the Tissot Foundation has been working to establish an international network to link the business world with scientific community so that opportunities of mutual interest can be identified and pursued, thus improving the quality of the investments.
We believe that when business teams with science, the results can be very positive. To demonstrate this point, we invite you to assemble the two discs enclosed. Each disc represents a community: scientific or economic.
Alone each disc can roll, but the motion quickly comes to a halt through lack of momentum.
On the other hand, when the two worlds are combined, they become a new entity, more stable and more harmonious.

The Tissot Economic Foundation is a non-profit organisation, dedicated to the detection and follow up of innovative opportunities and projects for economic development. Since it was established in 1980, the Tissot Foundation has played a role in the field of innovation, setting up an international network of skills and resources to impact economic development on both a local and global scale. This is reflected in our logo which depicts a network linking people together, with the green shaded area representing a strategic meeting point for the network.
Let's immediately define our basic building block: we mean by skills not only manual potential to use tools but also the mental and organisational capacity to handle productive situations.
Innovi was created in 1987 by the Tissot Foundation to develop and market some of its projects. This for-profit company invests in new ventures and supplies innovation services such as consulting, marketing and management.
The Tissot Economic Foundation and Innovi SA collaborate together to develop innovation centres. These are the places on the network equipped to promote innovative projects with the guidance of the Tissot Foundation's experience. The monochrome logo can be adopted by the innovation centres and theirs projects within the network.