Generating Local Business and Global Impact
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2025
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11 - Student thesis
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW
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Olten
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This paper explores the emerging market of solar tiles with a focus on a possible development of a startup called “Gautschi Solar” and an accompanying supply chain from Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area to Switzerland. Solar tiles, or solar roof tiles, are photovoltaic cells in a design to look like conventional roof tiles while also producing electricity. They are an alternative to solar panels and combine both the traditional look of regular roof tiles and a functional roof. The thesis analyses Shenzhen as a possible manufacturing hub for solar technologies, often being referred to as China’s Silicon Valley, and Switzerland as a potential market for the solar tiles, which sets itself ambitious sustainability goals, especially in the solar energy space.
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Gautschi, J. (2025). Generating Local Business and Global Impact [Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW]. https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/54877