The Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions is the world's leading exhibition of inventions, sponsored by the Municipality of Geneva and first exhibited in 1973.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, founded in 1954 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with 21 member states. CERN owns the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is used for international high-energy physics research.