A playground for industry to innovate. To gain confidence in new ideas. Non-bureaucratic. Minimal. Fast.
Call for Projects - Spring Semester 2024
Get in touch until 16.12.2023 to get your project started in our next batch from Mar. - Sep. 2024.
To bring daring ideas to life that are too risky or too far out for others to pursue.
For organizations We provide a unique opportunity for organizations to identify entry points with new technologies, to learn how such technologies create value for them and to test ideas that are too "far out" to be accommodated within a corporate environment.
For students Unlike other labs at ETH, we focus on learning opportunities that lie in fast & minimal real-world projects rather than diligent, deep and narrow research. We do projects with industry where you can learn how to bring our radical innovation mindset into risk-averse settings with established processes.
With unbiased exploration and rapid testing of solutions from uncertainty to proof of concept.
Our history
The Feasibility Lab was founded in 2019 by Prof. Mirko Meboldt to support clinicians with a clinical need but no idea how to get started with a solution. In 2020 we initiated and focussed on the emergency-research initiative "helpfulETH" to solve Covid-related clinical challenges. Today we aim to support Swiss industry with our rapid development and validation methods in any engineering-related challenges.
How do we work?
We are convinced that structured approaches are equally important as making room for unbiased exploration and coincidental findings. We allow ourselves time to pursue moonshots and utopic ideas, be inspired and transfer essential learnings to the next project.
What do we typically do?
We take early-stage ideas, define hypotheses, build test set-ups and challenge the hypotheses in an empirical, straight-forward manner. The projects are led by one of our experienced product development engineers and supported by ETH engineering students on the masters level.
How are projects funded?
Most of our projects are either paid directly by industry partners or are funded as common projects where we apply together for innovation grants, e.g. from Innosuisse. We are also doing projects for research groups that are funded through ETH or other research grants.
