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Technology Incubators
15 Aug 00 13:40
On this page: Article continues after advertisements The incubator program aims to turn technological ideas into commercial successes. It operates under the aegis of the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The incubators provide fledgling enterprises with a supportive framework, including administrative back-up and consulting services, while the Office of the Chief Scientist provides finance. An enterprise can generally remain within an incubator for two years, within which time it is expected to complete development of its product and find independent sources of finance. An incubator may be independent, or backed by an investor, or part of an established company. Government support is given on different terms in each case. Most of the incubators are located outside the central Tel Aviv-Gush Dan area. There are about 200 projects in the independent incubators. The main R&D fields are chemical and electrochemical, mechanical and electromechanical, software, electronics, biotechnology, and computers. The applications for the technologies being developed are predominantly in industrial and control processes, medicine and cosmetics, and transport and communications, with agriculture also a significant beneficiary. The incubator program began as a response to the influx of scientists and engineers from the countries of the former Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s, when immigration from those countries was at its height. Immigration has since abated, and the effectiveness of the scheme, and of other aspects of government support for R&D, is now being questioned, though the Office of the Chief Scientist claims a high success rate for incubator enterprises, and the scheme has been held up internationally as a model of its kind. For further details, see Investment Incentives. The Office of the Chief Scientist site provides a full guide to the incubator scheme and to the incubators themselves, plus a project database . The site does not include incubators that operate within companies.
Ashkelon Technological Industries (ATI) HiCenter
HiTEC Technology Enterpreneurship Center Har Hotzvim
Incentive Technological Incubator
Initiative Center of the Negev
Incubator for Technological Entrepreneurhsip (ITEK)
Iris Ventures
J.C. Technologies
Kinarot Jordan Valley Technology Incubator
Lab-One Innovations
Jerusalem Software Incubator
Maayan Technology Ventures
Magnet Program
MATAM Advanced Technology Center, Haifa Not itself an incubator, MATAM is an industrial park that provides services to tenants.
Meytag Technology Incubator
Meytav - Technological Enterprises Initiation Center
Misgav Carmiel Incubator
Mofet B'Yehuda - Technology and Business Incubator Mofet also manages an enviromental division: GreenTech that focuses on start-up entrepreneurs and investors interested in meeting the growing global demand for new ecological and environmental technologies.
New Generation Technology (NGT) A high-tech incubator founded by a group of Israeli Arab and Jewish businesspeople.
Naiot Technological Center
Ofek LaOleh Jezre'el Valley Initiative Center
Orit Technological R&D Center
Patir R&D Center Incubator Rad BioMed Incubator
Rad-Ramot Rad-Ramot is a joint venture of Rad Data Communication Ltd. and Ramot, the commercial arm of Tel Aviv University. It focuses on bio-medical and life-science projects.
Rotem Ventures Ltd.
Targetech Innovation Center
Targetech Innovation Center
Technion Seed Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem
Western Negev Initiative Center
Xenia Ventures Technology Incubator YEDA Research and Development of the Weizmann Institute of Science Yozmot - Granot Initiative Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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