
Switzerland is represented by one less company than in 2018. companies in the top 500 ranking has risen from 140 to 164, while Europe's share has shrunk from 142 to 133 companies. A long-term comparison shows that since 2018, the number of U.S. In other promising sectors - especially in the technology sector - Switzerland is not among the leaders.Īmong the top investors worldwide, however, there are more and more US corporations - and fewer and fewer European companies.

In addition, these investments focus too one-sidedly on the health sciences sector," says Rösch-Rütsche. "At the same time, however, it must be noted that investments in Switzerland have increased by 5%, which is significantly less than the investments of the Top 500, which have increased by 14%. R&D investments are investments in the future this makes one confident about the prospects of Switzerland as a business location. The framework conditions for investments in research and development are still considered attractive," says Stefan Rösch-Rütsche, Country Managing Partner of EY in Switzerland. "In principle, this is a positive sign for Switzerland as a business location.

In terms of spending in absolute amounts, Switzerland ranks 5th in the world, with only companies from the US, Japan, China and Germany investing more. R&D spending by the top 14 Swiss investors in the ranking climbed by 5% in 2022 to 33 billion euros. They were followed - at a considerable distance - by companies from Japan (87 billion, up 6%) and Germany (68 billion, up 11%). 475 billion euros were invested by the 164 corporations headquartered in the United States - an increase of 16% year-on-year. The world's most innovative top corporations are investing more in their future: the research and development budgets of the 500 companies with the highest R&D spending worldwide increased by 14% year-on-year to the equivalent of 889 billion euros in 2022.

But “sus” as an abbreviation for suspicious would go on to be popularized in the U.S. The policing practice was repealed that same year, however, similar legislation was later enacted and the effects of sus law are still felt in the British political climate today. This discrimination caused tension in communities all throughout England and was a major factor in what sparked the 1981 Brixton riot in London when thousands of protestors clashed with the Metropolitan Police. The practice was found to disproportionately target Black and brown people and have little-to-no impact on crime in London.

Specifically, the cops had to think a person was in violation of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, which only required them to establish that someone was a “suspected person” with intent to commit an arrestable offense. It gave British law enforcement the power to search and potentially arrest people who they believed were up to no good. " Sus law" was a nickname for a stop and search law enacted in 1824, that gained its monicker in the early-to-mid 1900s. A modern example the use of "suss out." Mark Anderson
