GZA receives strategy award from "Financial Times"
fDi Intelligence awards the Greater Zurich Area AG a prize for promoting advanced manufacturing technologies. The jury sees in the clusters for robotics and intelligent systems indications of an emerging attractive center for high-tech manufacturing.
As part of the fDi Strategy Awards 2021 , Greater Zurich Area AG ( GZA ) receives the specialist award for advanced manufacturing. The strategy prizes are awarded to global location promotions that have particularly distinguished themselves in certain areas in the current year. fDi intelligence is the department for foreign direct investment (fdi) of the London business newspaper ” Financial Times” .
For this year’s edition, four jurors from the fDi team reviewed 34 locations and agencies that stood out in various fDi Intelligence rankings in 2021. The main prizes were awarded in the four main categories Global Cities of the Future, African Tech Ecosystems, American Cities of the Future and Tech Cities of the Future.
Best investment promotion agency (IPA) was the New York City Economic Development Corporation. It also received the award for the highest degree of sustainability. Berlin Partner for Business and Technology received the award for the best aftercare services.
In addition, the jury awarded prizes for outstanding achievements in specific sectors. She noted that the greater Zurich area, as Switzerland’s financial metropolis, has a strong concentration of companies using the most modern manufacturing processes. As stated in the judgment in favor of the GZA, this “in combination with the clusters for robotics and intelligent systems in the city” indicates “that the location will be an attractive center for high-tech manufacturing”.