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The annual report of the Innovation Authority: the high-tech industry at a crossroads

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The annual report of the Innovation Authority: the high-tech industry at a crossroads despite continued growth in 2023 The companies and investors express concerns about the future
Patent registration. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A record number of patents filed by the companies next to the universities

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This is according to a survey of knowledge commercialization companies in Israel for the year 2021 by the CBS in collaboration with the Molomaf. Prof. Peretz Lavi, chairman of the MoLMOP: "The increase in the license agreements that were signed is significant for the state, as these will bear their fruits in the future
The launch conference of the Knowledge Center for Research Infrastructures. Photo: Sion Black

For the first time: cooperation in research infrastructures between all research institutions in academia and the high-tech industry throughout the country

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The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology established a national knowledge center for research infrastructures that will connect all researchers with research equipment and relevant experts throughout the country. The aim of the center is to strengthen the cooperation between them and to make the best use of the infrastructures,
From Ben Gurion University - a view from Beer Sheva's main street, Sderot Reger. Illustration: depositphotos.com Ben Gurion University - view from Beer Sheva's main street, Sderot Reger. Illustration: depositphotos.com at Ben Gurion University. The Innovation Authority is launching a route to encourage and promote technological entrepreneurship, innovation and R&D in the Beer Sheva metropolis; the program's budget is 25 million NIS The Innovation Authority is launching a new program to promote technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the Beer Sheva area in the areas of cyber, fifth generation (5G), health, artificial intelligence and more. , which will also work to promote R&D infrastructure, strengthen local entrepreneurship and encourage the arrival of multinational and local high-tech companies to the region, will be budgeted at 25 million NIS for a period of four years and its goal will be to turn the Beer Sheva region into a high-tech metropolis in the Negev. Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Chairman of the Innovation Authority: "In recent years, the Innovation Authority has been working in favor of leading an innovation-oriented economic strategy in the periphery, which will make it possible to promote and benefit the economy at the local and national level. The program to promote entrepreneurship in the Beer Sheva region will focus on establishing research and development infrastructures, strengthening local entrepreneurship As well as the impetus for the arrival of large hi-tech companies (multinational and local) to the region. Hi-tech has emerged in the past year as a major engine for exiting the economic crisis, focusing on the periphery during this period may be a real lever for the economic strengthening that is required in the region." Anya Eldan, VP and head of the start-up arena at the Innovation Authority, said: "The program will focus on technological fields with significant growth potential, including cyber, fifth generation (5G), health, industry, sustainability and more. Also, the program will focus on strengthening the entrepreneurial community in Beer Sheva, and integrating the minority population into the technological entrepreneurship ecosystem." , increasing the knowledge and innovation centers in the city, increasing the number of technology companies in the city that employ at least 100 employees, increasing the number of entrepreneurs in underrepresented populations, encouraging technological entrepreneurs and the establishment of start-up companies in the city, and more," Eldan emphasizes. The program to promote technological entrepreneurship in Be'er Sheva will be expressed on several levels: building a technological infrastructure and knowledge centers, including - innovation centers in the field of cleantech (CleanTech), a synthetic data center (Sandbox) for examining algorithms in the cyber field and more. Strengthening the entrepreneurial community - building a basket of benefits for entrepreneurs (recruitment incentive and relocation programs), recruiting expert mentors, connecting the entrepreneurs of the city and the area with investors, entrepreneurial communities, academia and established companies. Encouraging the establishment of R&D and innovation centers of established high-tech companies - building human capital programs in collaboration with Kiryat ICT, encouraging established technology companies and other entities to establish innovation centers through encouragement and support grants, cooperation with local placement companies and more. Promotion, branding and marketing of the Beer Sheva area As a high-tech metropolis in the Negev - holding professional events, meetups and conferences (including international conferences), opening municipal databases and promoting Beer Sheva as a "beta site" for entrepreneurs, etc. The city of Beer Sheva has a significant advantage - it has about 220 thousand residents and is a metropolis that serves about 750 residents in the Negev region, in an area that makes up about 60% of the territory of the State of Israel. However, the great potential inherent in it is not realized, and today it has several dozen start-up companies (less than 1% of the total start-up companies in Israel), and it suffers from a shortage In R&D infrastructures and knowledge centers that aim to promote the activity of entrepreneurs and young companies. By law, due to the geographic focus, the route requires the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.

The Innovation Authority is launching a new route to encourage and promote innovation and R&D in Be'er Sheva

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The countries that are members of the Horizon 2020 program that ends this year - in dark blue, countries that belong to the European Union, in light blue the associated countries that the UK will now also join. Associated countries will not be able to participate in the Horizon Europe program in the fields of quantum and space.

Israel, Great Britain and Switzerland were excluded from the European R&D program in the fields of quantum and space

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The reasons: making these areas strategic and the fear of brain drain. About 20 joint quantum projects with the European Union are operating in Israel. The scientific community fears damage to European science. Officials in Israel did not respond to a website request
Medical research. Photo: shutterstock

Health R&D in Israel is negligible compared to the OECD average

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Kiryat Atidim. Photo: from Wikipedia

Research: Israel has reached the exhaustion of human capital in high-tech

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Advocate Naomi Asia. Photo courtesy of her

Naomi Asia - the most influential lawyer in the fields of hi-tech and cyber

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Measurements and weights - Israel. Illustration: shutterstock

The State Comptroller: The Ministry of Economy and Industry degenerated the National Physics Laboratory on its own accord

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The Koffler particle accelerator. Photo: faithful photographer Michael Jacobson, license - usage

CBS: Knowledge commercialization companies recorded revenues of NIS 1.36 billion in 2016

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LHC - PR photo: CERN

The Innovation Authority cooperates with the CERN particle accelerator

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Volcanic Institute logo. Source: Avishai Teicher / Wikimedia Commons.

"The meaning of the cuts at the Volcani Agricultural Research Institute - the cessation of activity"

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Shlomo Gerdman, co-chairman of the 2018 iNNOVEX conference. PR photo.

Gil Schweide and Avigdor Vilanz among the winners of the innovation award at iNNOVEX2018:

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Prof. Dan Ben David, Root Institute in an interview with the Hidaan site: Higher education is in continuous decline

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Using computer vision for autonomous driving. From the Mobileye website

A 25% increase in patent applications by knowledge commercialization companies in universities

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UNESCO award to the Volcanic Institute for contribution to life sciences research

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More than half of those admitted to the senior faculty at universities are returning scientists. Illustration: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

More than half of those admitted to the senior faculty at universities are returning scientists

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Prof. Amir Landsberg. Source: Technion spokesmen.

New avenues in medicine

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The laboratory staff, from the right: laboratory engineer Yevgeni Linder, Mia Barzilai (doctoral student), Assaf Hershkovitz (master's degree), Itamar Holzman (toward a master's degree), Alon Avidor (bachelor's degree), Dr. Cecil Shagia (senior scientist) and Dr. Yachin Hebrew. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Collective Memory

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Dendrites, which are the focus of Prof. Jackie Schiller's and doctoral student Maya Sandler's research. This study, along with other studies by researchers from other research disciplines, demonstrates the in-depth collaboration between researchers to deepen research and development in the field of the brain. Image source: Mathias De Roo / Wikimedia.

Researchers at the Technion are increasing their collaboration to expand research and development in the field of the brain

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Hami Peres shakes the hands of Nobel laureate Andre Geim, and in the background - President Shimon Peres. Photography: Ilan Levy

A prize of up to one million dollars from Google to a company that will present a breakthrough innovation at the iNNOVEX2017 conference

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Yishai Frankel Vice President of the New Technologies Group and General Manager of the Software Division

Yishai Frankel, Vice President of Intel: The industry should adopt the Google model to connect with academia and conduct basic research

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From the CHIPEX 201 exhibition

A series of senior experts from the global chip industry will arrive in Israel to take part in ChipEx2016

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Distress bracelet for BLU group divers. Photo: Technion spokespeople

A traumatic experience while diving gave birth to an idea to develop a distress bracelet intended for divers

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Prof. Simon Litzin at the IEEE conference at Tel Aviv University. Photo: Shmuel Oster

The relationship between scientific excellence and the success of Israeli high-tech

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