The Contribution of Science to Israeli Security
This survey was commission by President of the Technion, Professor Zehev Tadmor, as part of a series of surveys on the contributions of science to the State of Israel on its 50th anniversary. The project was initiated by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Even before the establishment of the State of Israel the […]
The Contribution of Technion Graduates to the Israeli Economy
This report shows the contribution of leading Technion graduates to Israel’s economy. The leaders are decision makers with influence on their organizations including chairmen of board of directors, presidents, CEO’s, deputy CEO’s etc. The leaders’ population was taken from a special list prepared by the Technion Alumni Liaison Office and includes 600 graduates. 2% of […]
The Contribution of Science to Civilian Industry in Israel
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities initiated a series of seminars on the contributions of science to the State of Israel on its 50th anniversary. In this framework Technion President Professor Zehev Tadmor commissioned this survey which is dedicated to the contributions of science to Industry, and which serves to complement a previous survey […]
Economic Incentives in Solid Urban Waste Policy. Final Report
Disposal of municipal solid waste entails severe environmental burdens especially on small, densely populated regions and countries. Israel is grappling with the task of designing an efficient (and politically acceptable!) solid-waste policy, taking into consideration externalities associated with alternative disposal options and the pervasive NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome.This paper analyzes alternative waste […]
INNOVATION: Technology Assessment, Forecasting, Strategy and Regional Policy
We construct new operational definitions of incremental innovation, standard innovation, and radical innovation, using our “technometric benchmarking” model. Based on this definition, optimal incremental innovation is formulated as a linear programming problem. The model is illustrated by an actual case: reconfiguration of a gamma camera. We show how our model can contribute to improved allocation […]
Technometric Benchmarking: Towards an Interactive Operational Model for Management of Technology and Innovation in Science-Based Startups, Selected Re
Overall objective of our project: “…to equip managers of technology in science-based companies [in Israel and in Germany] with tools that can help their firms become more innovative and competitive”. (from our Research Proposal). In this project, we are developing an integrated “toolkit” of quantitative benchmarking models, covering each aspect of the innovation process from […]
Italian-Israeli Binational Conference on Natural Gas
In November 1995 an agreement for cooperation between the Technion and the Politechnico di Milano was signed. In addition to agreeing to encourage student and faculty exchanges and joint research, we also agreed to attempt to encourage cooperation between Italian and Israeli industry. The first fruit of this effort was the Binational Conference on Natural […]
Particle Air Pollution: Are Israeli Regulations Sufficient to Protect the Public Health?
This seminar is held just in time, and maybe even too late. During the last two decades the world has been aware of environment problems of all kinds and especially air pollution. Awareness of the developed western world keeps growing and it seems that most countries have realized the danger inherent in environmental problems which […]
The Chemical Industry 2000 Potential for Future Growth
Chemical industry has been stagnating for many years. Long term trends are analyzed. There exists a potential for growth.We have identified market segments that are growing faster than other segments of the chemical industry. These were presented in 3 groups of potential areas for growth for the Israeli chemical industry:1) Families of intermediate: Synthesis gas […]
Directors’ Reports 1978-1994
