Abbreviations and acronyms

Agroscope

Swiss Federal Research Institute for the Agri-food Sector

AIS

Agricultural innovation system

ARE

Federal Office for Spatial Development

CEAT

Urban and Regional Planning Community

DEGURBA

Degree of urbanisation

DETEC

Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

EAER

Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research

EMPA

Swiss Institute for Materials Science and Technology

EPFL

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

ERI

Education, research and innovation

ETH

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

ETH Zurich

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

EU-LFS

European Labour Force Survey

FiBL

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture

FOAG

Federal Office for Agriculture

FOEN

Federal Office for the Environment

FSVO

Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office

GSSE

General Service Support Estimate

HAFL

School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Science

HHI

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

ICT

Information and communication technology

IPRs

Intellectual property rights

ISDC

Interdepartmental Sustainable Development Committee

NRP

New Regional Policy

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PSE

Producer support estimate

PSI

Paul Scherrer Institute

R&D

Research and development

R&I

Research and innovation

RIPA

Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation

RIS

Regional innovation system

SECO

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs

SERI

State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

SNSF

Swiss National Science Foundation

SSC

Swiss Science Council

TL2

OECD Territorial Level 2

TL3

OECD Territorial Level 3

TOPO

Geodetic Engineering Laboratory

TRQ

Tariff rate quota

ZHAW

Zurich University of Applied Sciences