Informing
Policy
for Progress

Engineering Leadership: Skills and Competencies

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Engineering leadership encompasses the ability to guide teams, processes, and projects in the design, development, and implementation of engineering and technological systems. This document provides background materials to support the development of Israel’s professional infrastructure for engineering leadership, with the goal of shaping programs that cultivate engineering leadership skills and competencies across academia and industry.

Before You Launch: Protocol for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Part 2: Case Study

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In Part 1 we presented a lengthy before-you-launch protocol for entrepreneurs, comprising key issues and questions that demand forethought and early planning. In Part II we provide an interview with the CEO of an Israeli startup Darwin AI whose mantra is “The AI Hub for Government”.
CEO Noam Maital responds to the protocol questions, based on his experience with a successful startup Waycare and a startup-in-progress

Before You Launch: An Exhaustive Protocol for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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Many believe that high risk is innate and inherent in entrepreneurship – ‘baked in the cake’. In this study, we argue that the failure rate can be significantly reduced by the intelligent use of a pre-launch protocol — a list of sixty-four “$64 questions”, that ask startup entrepreneurs to consider in advance the challenges and pitfalls they may face in future – in order to anticipate and prepare.

Assessment of the Environmental Conditions within the Arab Community

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The purpose of this review of the environmental status within Arab authorities is to identify success stories, key challenges, and opportunities for change in the environmental landscape of the Arab community, particularly in the areas of sustainable development and environmental infrastructure.