Informing
Policy
for Progress

Eran Leck

Specializations:

Patent statistics, STI indicators, STI program evaluation, academia-industry cooperation, transportation efficiency and equity, Transit Oriented Development, statistical modelling

Education:

PhD Urban and Regional Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

MSc Urban and Regional Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

BA Statistics, Geography, University of Haifa

Specializations:

Patent statistics, STI indicators, STI program evaluation, academia-industry cooperation, transportation efficiency and equity, Transit Oriented Development, statistical modelling

About

Dr. Eran Leck is a Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. Leck holds PhD and MSc degrees from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Urban and Regional Planning and a BA in Statistics and Geography from the University of Haifa. He is a graduate of the 2021 Israel-France Maimonides Research Program and currently serves as a PI in joint a  SNI-Sciences Po research project on the long-term socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He served as PI and co-PI in two recent studies focusing on the mitigation of socioeconomic gaps (measuring the digital divide and profiling online user behavior), both funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He also served as a PI in a binational research project on the evaluation of policy instruments and models for fostering academia-industry cooperation. Leck was a member of a large-scale European project (RISIS 2 – Horizon 2020) focusing on STI infrastructure (science, technology, and innovation) and has been involved in similar projects in the past (RISIS, PICK-ME projects under the FP7). He is an expert on patent statistics and innovation policy evaluation and has published widely on these topics. Leck has considerable experience working with large-scale databases, conducting surveys and statistical and econometric modelling.

Publications
August 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Smart Robotics- First report

Daphne Getz, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Rinat Klein, Roey Tzezana, Shlomo Rosenberg, Avida Shoham, Ella Barzani, Eran Leck, Sima Tziperfal

September 2016

Issues in developing a metropolin plan for the north of Israel

Arnon Bentur, Amnon Frenkel, Dan Chemansky, Emil Israel, Eran Leck, Marina Toger, Maria Marinov, Tamar Dayan

תמונת הכריכה של הדוח: תפוקות מחקר ופיתוח בישראל: פרסומים מדעיים בהשוואה בינלאומית
April 2011

Israeli R&D Output: international comparison of scientific publications

Daphne Getz, Yair Even-Zohar, Bella Zalmanovich, Eran Leck, Gideon Czapski

December 2010

Evaluation of the NOFAR Program

Daphne Getz, Vered Gilad, Eran Leck, Iris Eyal, Miriam Asotsky

Projects
May 2024

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Smart Robotics

Daphne Getz, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Roey Tzezana, Shlomo Rosenberg, Avida Shoham, Ella Barzani, Eran Leck, Sima Tziperfal, Rinat Klein

May 2024

Evaluating the NOFAR Program

Daphne Getz, Eran Leck, Vered Gilad, Iris Eyal, Miriam Asotsky

May 2024

UNESCO 2015:Science and Innovation in Israel

Zehev Tadmor, Daphne Getz, Vered Gilad, Tsipy Buchnik, Eran Leck, Ella Barzani, Bella Zalmanovich, Idan Liebes, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Eliezer Shein, Noa Lavid

May 2024

Public Funding of R&D: PREF

Idan Liebes, Eliezer Shein, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Noa Lavid, Ella Barzani, Eran Leck, Vered Gilad, Zehev Tadmor, Daphne Getz, Tsipy Buchnik, Bella Zalmanovich

May 2024

Innovation – Environmental Technologies

Ofira Ayalon, Gilead Fortuna, Idan Liebes, Shiri Freund-Koren, Gershon Grossman, Avi Temkin, Miriam Lev-On, Perry Lev-On, Efrat Elimelech, Haim Zaban, Eliezer Fruchter, Michal Nachmany, Tal Goldrath, Daphne Getz, Vered Gilad, Eran Leck, Yifaat Baron, Yitzhak Goren, Eli Israeli, Yoram Avnimelech, Yaron Arnon, Noam Gressel, Mordechai Shechter

Factories in Haifa Bay
May 2024

Issues for Formulating a Metropolitan Plan in the North

Arnon Bentur, Amnon Frenkel, Dan Chemansky, Emil Israel, Eran Leck, Maria Marinov, Tamar Dayan, Avigdor Zonnenshain, Yehuda Hayuth, Gilead Fortuna, Omri Rand

Press room
July 2019

Zuckerman Fund for AI Revolution

Ella Barzani, Daphne Getz, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Eran Leck, Sima Tziperfal, Avida Shoham, Rinat Klein, Roey Tzezana, Shlomo Rosenberg

December 2017

Artificial intelligence is about to change the world – will Israel keep pace?

Ofira Ayalon, Arnon Bentur, Ella Barzani, Daphne Getz, Oshrat Katz Shacham, Eran Keter, Eran Leck, Sima Tziperfal, Avida Shoham, Rinat Klein, Roey Tzezana, Shlomo Rosenberg

Podcasts