Workers at Germany-based pharmaceutical company Merck Serono are reportedly campaigning for it to do more venture capital, as part of a protest about the shut down of its Swiss base.
Employees of pharmaceutical company Merck Serono are reportedly campaigning for the company to expand its venture operations in Switzerland, after the company said it would shut down its Swiss base.
The employees have requested the company to set up a CHF100m (€104m) venture capital fund, according to news provider Geneva Lunch, more than triple the company’s present €30m Entrepreneur Partnership Program, which funds the company’s Swiss-based employees to set up businesses. This was one of three proposals, which also…
