Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Trade, Ehud Olmert, announced the government's decision to transfer 30 million dollars to a research fund with a total scope of 90 million dollars intended for the development of the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev. The government's decision was made as part of a large-scale plan for development in the Negev with an investment of approximately NIS 17 billion in the coming decade
The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, under the direction of Prof. Iron Cohen, was founded at Ben-Gurion University on the initiative and funding of the Jewish-Swiss banker Edgar De Picciotto, chairman of the Union Bancaire Privee bank. As part of a celebratory dinner held in his honor by the university's administration, on Sunday November 20.11.2005, XNUMX, in the presence of Minister Olmert, Da Picciuto announced his intention to continue investing in the second phase of the institute's development, with the goal being to make the institute the leading scientific body in the field of biotechnological research in Israel and the whole world.
The Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, announced in May 2001, the establishment of the National Biotechnology Institute near Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. "Establishing the National Biotechnology Institute near the university" said Sharon in this context "is a major move to change the face of the Negev." I call on Israeli society and the international community to come and set up their research and development centers in the science and technology park at the university."
The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev was established at Ben-Gurion University to establish an effective academic framework and platform for the growth of a prosperous biotechnological industry in the Negev and Israel. The combination between achievements in research and development and economic success is designed to attract outstanding scientists to the Negev and create a center for research, application and teaching. "The founders of the institute, the leadership of the university and its supporters in Israel and around the world, constitute a quality infrastructure of human and material resources, which will enable the establishment of a unique institution in the fields of biotechnology and science in Israel and around the world. The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev will in the future establish collaborations with our neighbors in the Middle East. This kind of development will be the fulfillment of David Ben-Gurion's vision", says the president of the university, Prof. Avishai Braverman.
Ben-Gurion University, where about 20% of the students in Israel study in the fields of high-tech, biotechnology and nano-biotechnology, considers the development of these fields in the Negev a national mission of the first order. According to Prof. Braverman, the main need behind the establishment of the Science Park and the National Institute of Biotechnology is to provide a strategic, long-term answer to the needs of the Negev and the city of Beer Sheva, which are looking for investments, especially in the fields of advanced industries, to enable the growth of the region.
The complex intended for the high-tech park is located southeast of the campus, adjacent to it and the university train station, with the aim of enabling close interactions between the park and the university. Israeli and international high-tech companies engaged in research and development are to be located in the park, and it will include, among other things, an incubator for companies start up. The high-tech park and the National Biotechnology Institute are intended to be a lever to speed up broad economic and urban development processes in Beer Sheva and to position the city's image as an "innovation center on the edge of the desert."
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Is this a biotechnological industry??
When are you supposed to start building the science park?
Has the planning work started?
Will the lots that will be developed be marketed to hi-tech companies or will it be an initiative of public bodies or maybe a combined one?
The Science Park project, if indeed established, will give impetus to Ramot and Be'er Sheva in general.
Can anyone answer the above questions?
Thanks for the comment. The article is an article from a little over a year ago, which accidentally floated up during the transfer of materials from the old site to the new. However, your comment is indeed correct in my opinion.
1. I don't trust the government anymore for what has to do with the Negev. 2. If so, then they are throwing crumbs at us to keep us quiet 3. This is not an industry but research that provides few employment opportunities 4. He always tells us that this is a university that has a city. 5. Avishi left the city at the first opportunity, therefore whatever he does still he is no longer from the Negev, his value has decreased in my opinion, he will probably have to look for a political power base in his area of residence.