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The Innovation Authority chose Next Silicon to establish a supercomputer infrastructure for R&D organizations in the field of artificial intelligence

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The Authority will invest up to NIS 30 million in the establishment of the infrastructure so that it will serve all the companies and researchers in Israel and will be used for research and development of accelerators, hardware components, communication and infrastructure software. The new infrastructure is supposed to respond to the increase in the demand for data processing with artificial intelligence on supercomputers, server farms and processing units end
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The Innovation Authority chose Quantum Machines to establish the Israeli quantum computing center

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For the first time in the world, a quantum computing center is being established that includes three different quantum technologies with a common control layer * Project budget - NIS 100 million for three years
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The Innovation Authority decided to finance the establishment of the first synthetic biology infrastructure company in Israel

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The funding will amount to approximately NIS 18 million for the first year and will be carried out in collaboration with Chai Laboratories and the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, the total budget is expected to reach NIS 40 million if the program is carried out in accordance with the defined goals
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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biological chip. From Pixabay

The Innovation Authority: Associations and Tracks: Biochips, Natural Language Processing and Bio-Convergence

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The Innovation Authority has recently accelerated the issuance of the calling voices intended for academia and the high-tech industry. Here is what they published last month:
Control and control of transportation in smart cities. From Jumpstory.com

Three new associations: transportation in smart cities, laser material processing, quantum communication

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Gene editing using Crispr Cas-9. Illustration: shutterstock

The Innovation Authority approved the establishment of the CRISPR-IL consortium that combines artificial intelligence technologies to advance the field of genomic editing

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Solutions for the Corona epidemic. Illustration: Image by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay

Corona: The Innovation Authority supports projects * Sheba: Many companies approach us with innovative technologies

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LHC - PR photo: CERN

The Innovation Authority cooperates with the CERN particle accelerator

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From the right: Dr. Shlomo Markel, Ruth Poliakinen Baruchi, Tzipi Ozer Amron, Benny Schneider, Dan Inbar. Source: Israel Malovni.

"The leading company in 2030 will not be Google or Amazon, but a company we don't know"

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Illustration: O. Usher (UCL MAPS).

An Israeli-international team is developing a quantum computer funded by the QuantERA Foundation

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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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"Machines are becoming smarter, and more and more know how to do jobs that are now done by humans. Therefore, the question arises: what about us, the members of the human race?". Illustration: pixabay.

"The robots not only take professions but allow easier entry into new technological professions"

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