Annual Report 2015 Samuel Neaman Institute
The Annual report for 2015 summarizes the Samuel Neaman Institute’s activities for this year in a wide range of subjects.
Why Israel needs to promote its global Cleantech industry?
Israel was recently recognized as a global leader in Cleantech innovation; A major barrier for Israel start-ups to leverage this innovation into competitive global industry is the lack of available funding of commercial projects at the after the technology had already been proven. This article reviews the Israel Cleantech innovations and recommendations for implementing a national policy for the global Cleantech industry is suggested.
Israel should join the fourth industrial revolution
Advanced manufacturing is the integration of new technologies in order to optimize and improve the processes of using them to manufacturing.
R&D Outputs in Israel: International Comparison of Scientific Publications, 2000-2014
This is the third in a series of studies financed by the Samuel Neaman Institution and the National Council for R&D (NCRD). The study’s findings are as follows: International comparison indicates that Israel’s ranking continues a downward trend in various quantitative indices: number of publications, number of publications per capita, its share in global and […]
National Environmental Priorities, Position Paper X: Innovative agricultural technology industry in Israel, 2016
This National Priorities document, the tenth to be published, summarizes updated knowledge and brings the subject of Agricultural Technologies (Agrotech) to the public agenda. The world is currently facing complex environmental challenges, partly as a result of growing population along with the outcomes of climate change and include water and air pollution challenges, soil degradation […]
Energy Forum 37: Energy security in Israel
In Israel, as in many western countries, there is an understanding that national security largely depends on the proper functioning of the national infrastructure, including a stable supply of various forms of energy. Among those the electric power supply is particularly sensitive, for an event of non-supply due to malfunction, sabotage, or any other reason, […]
Climate change: stop talking, start doing
Israel has recently signed, ceremoniously, the COP21 climate agreement in New York. But what the worth the glamorous pictures if the state of Israel actually does not invest any money in preparing for climate change?
How can the State lead energy saving?
The Ministry of Energy encourages significant savings in the country’s energy economy, by tenders for replacing old equipment with new, but there is still much to do. A new document issued by the Samuel Neaman Institute in the field of energy efficiency recommends what more should be done.
How to change the world
What would happen if an Israeli invention replaced conventional internal combustion engines?
Global Estimates Of Methane Emissions from Off-Shore Drilling Plants and Their Importance
The study reviews, for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the world’s regulations and methodologies for estimating methane emissions in the natural gas sector. In addition, the study presents an opinion that addresses the relevance of these methodologies and their application to estimating methane emissions from natural gas facilities in Israel. Methane (CH4) is emitted into […]