Bern is making up places in the economic ranking
The prospects for an upswing in the canton have brightened somewhat. Somewhat surprisingly, however, there is a lack of innovation.
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–Although medicine, research and entrepreneurship are coming together in the new Sitem Island project: According to UBS, 20 cantons are more innovative than Bern.
Foto: Christian Pfander
Economic rankings are usually not very edifying for the Bernese. Also the “The New Zurich Times” this week dressed the canton down as ailing and caricatured it with a bear yawning tiredly. He’s lying lazily on his pockets from Zug, Zurich and Schwyz.
Apart from the fact that eight cantons receive more per capita from the Swiss federal financial equalization scheme: the major bank UBS delivers with its latest Indicator of the competitiveness of the cantons a differentiated picture.
The conclusion first: Bern is in 19th place and thus in the bottom third of the cantons. But it has improved two places compared to the last survey in 2019 and overtook Neuchâtel and Ticino.
