This is how the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced this evening: "We are accelerating the economy of New York today, this is a great day for the city and for the entire USA"
In a well-attended press conference, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell University and the Technion won the tender to establish an applied engineering research center on Roosevelt Island.
Bloomberg: "We excitedly announce the winners, these are two leading universities in the world that will bring innovation, more companies, more jobs, more dreamers and more entrepreneurs to our city."
According to Bloomberg, 20,000 people will be employed in construction alone, and in the near future 600 new companies will emerge from this campus. "We chose this proposal because it was the most ambitious, with amazing architecture, with technology incubators and with the best interdisciplinary program in the US," he adds.
According to Bloomberg: "The Technion brings international power to international New York, it is the one responsible for Israel being a start-up country, with 120 companies on the Nasdaq, half of which were founded or run by Technion graduates. With 3 Nobel Prize winners and many other achievements."
Mayor Bloomberg emphasized the aggressive timetables set by the 2 universities, and as early as 2012, students will study at the new campus, when the buildings will be completed by 2017, after the hospital located on Roosevelt Island is evacuated.
Technion President Peretz Lavie said: "I stand here before you with excitement and pride, I have just returned from Stockholm, where our professor Shechtman received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and I am as excited as I was there. When we picked up the glove and decided to enter the tender, we thought that New York was too far from Haifa, but happily we found a wonderful partner there - Cornell University. "
Prof. Lavie added: "We are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone for the Technion, the main support came from New York from the philanthropist Jacob Schiff, and now we are coming to New York and closing a circle of 100 years, a circle of New York and Haifa, of Cornell and the Technion."
Cornell President Prof. David Skorton said: "We have built a strategic alliance with the Technion, and we will fulfill the vision of the two universities in New York."
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu congratulated the Vice President and CEO of the Technion Dr. Avital Stein and congratulated the Technion on the second remarkable achievement within one month after the Nobel Prize. Benjamin Netanyahu's father was a professor emeritus at Cornell University.
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What does it matter, after all, both New York and Haifa will be affected by a potential nuclear war by 2016.
The Technion has no problem raising research grants from the EU and Asian countries: Korea, China, India, Japan.
See the value of Hussam Hayek's nose, and Prof. Chechenover's research, and semiconductor centers - solid state
and the Zisafel Nanotechnology Center. I myself am a fellow at another university with a grant from the Union. Annie is a full Malagasy.
Better to spread the risks. In my controversial personal opinion:
The Americans have an unpleasant history (at least no more than others) of retaliating against their loyal allies. They take over knowledge and exclude the partner from management. I predict (subject to criticism) that in the future Teva will pass to full American control and the 20,000 who earn money in Israel - in danger.
When there is a risk to their industry, they pursue the competitor - Kobi Alexander in Namibia. The American method is not the most successful. It may be a power in the sunset.
Even in the diplomatic field, their behavior is no different: in one year they lost hegemony in the entire Mazat. The loss in Egypt was unnecessary and clearly their fault. This is not an error but a policy. Jimmy Carter, thanks to whom we have Iran, authorized the elections in Gaza. What kind of democracy would there be if Fatah activists were thrown there from the fifth floor?
The current president is also controversial. In my opinion: when he was offered to destroy the stealth from the air, he opposed the offer.
Recently the Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a proposal for sanctions on the central bank of
Iran which controls about 90% of Iran's resources. The president objected. Recently 100 spies for the CIA were caught
in Lebanon and Iran. I can't prove it - but I think there is a method here. I would look for funding in other countries in Europe and Asia - that's where the future lies.
Cooperation between universities results in the allocation of resources for research, Israel is a small country that has to carry parasitic sectors on its back, cooperation with a rich country will improve research, the Technion brought a lot of respect to the country.
Great honor - true.
How does this contribute to the preservation of knowledge in Israel?
History shows that in some cases knowledge that we exported to the US led to the closure of the knowledge center in Israel:
Combers, in the not-too-distant future Teva, the cancellation of the Lion plane project.
Why not set up the greenhouse in Israel or spread the eggs in more than one basket?
Where did the 600 companies go - to Israel or the USA? Where will the scientists go?