Associations and sector organizations ensure that as partners in the National Network of Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), the internationalization services of S-GE are tailored to the needs of various sectors and that the associations and clusters publicize their service offers amongst their members. S-GE serves companies from all sectors. The export mandate has a particular focus on the food, ICT, life sciences and MEM sectors. S-GE also operates a program for the promotion of the export economy in the global cleantech growth market.

As part of the investment promotion, the focus is on sectors for which Switzerlandhas strong clusters, namely in ICT, life sciences and MEM.

Companies from various sectors have different needs in the promotion of exports and all have their own demands of Switzerland as an economic location. Associations and sector organizations are a partner of S-GE in the preparation of sector-related internationalization services. DEPARK is a technology development zone in which Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) is the majority shareholder. It constitutes the industry interface for the technologies created by the strong research infrastructure and academic expertise of DEU.