 Due to good transportation connections numerous industrial and commercial businesses have settled in the municipality.Manno has also become an important service center, since 1992 it has been the seat of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.In 1990-96 it was home to the UBS administrative center for Suglio-Lugano and since 1997 the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (university of Italian Switzerland).