The Concept

uptownBasel is an international centre of excellence for Industry 4.0. On the historic Schoren site in Arlesheim, near Basel, we are creating a development and production location that will be home to selected technology companies and other organisations.

The focus is on industrial production, healthcare and logistics as well as the cross-sectional function of digitalization. QuantumBasel, part of the uptownBasel Group, operates the first commercially usable quantum computer hub in Switzerland for this purpose; the partner company QAI Ventures in turn promotes and invests in start-ups in this field. As a platform for networked companies, uptownBasel drives cross-industry and cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer and thus promotes the realization of latent ideas – in the areas of the Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence, mobility of the future and agile working.

uptownBasel has been made possible through the private ownership of the Monique and Thomas Staehelin family, and is being implemented by Fankhauser Arealentwicklungen.