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Article: Business, science and art--a liaison Baloise: the Basel area, situated in the tri-country region where Switzerland, Germany and France come together, is not only international but also surprisingly innovative and chock-full of cultural attractions.(CANTON PROFILE)(Company overview)
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- Swiss News
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- June 1, 2007
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In 2006, the region gained not just one but two new institutions: the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland opened the new School of Life Sciences in Muttenz, and the ETH Zurich founded the Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel, the first time in its 150-year history that the institution has a department outside of Zurich. The dense concentration of public and private research institutions in the Basel area form a network characterized by myriad formal and informal forms of contact and cooperation. This is the secret for the success of the Basel area.
Basel is well-known as a center of business--with global players such as Roche ...
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