National Environmental Priorities
One of the functions of the Samuel Neaman Institute is to bridge the gap between academia, industry and decision-makers by making applicable, up-to-date information and research-based knowledge accessible to state institutions. The documents of national priorities compiled at the Shmuel Ne’eman Institute deal with a variety of issues that are important to raise on the public agenda.
Universities of The Future, Research and Science in Israel
The S. Neaman Institute is leading a movement for critical examination of the university of the future and higher education in Israel. In this context, in December 2004, the Institute sponsored an international scientific conference entitled “The Transition to a Mass Higher Education System – International Comparisons”, in cooperation with the United States-Israel Educational Fund, which manages the Fulbright Program for student and faculty exchanges, and the ISEF Fund.
Evaluating the Infrastructure Program of the Science and Technology and Space Ministry
The research evaluated the short and long-term effects of research and knowledge centers that received funding from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space from 2000 to 2010 as part of the infrastructure program.
Mapping National Research Infrastructures in Israel
The Samuel Neaman Institute is conducting in 2012-2014 a further study on the subject of ‘Mapping National Research Infrastructures in Israel’. The goal of the study is to build the knowledge database that would allow the creation of a road map for planning national research infrastructures in Israel and to formulate a policy that will define budgets and priorities within a national policy on large research infrastructures in Israel.
A Survey of Israel’s Foreign Relations in Science, Research, and Development at the National and Institutional Level
In 2014, the Neaman Institute completed the first phase of the survey of Israel’s foreign relations in R&D at the national and institutional level. As part of this stage, a comprehensive survey was conducted, and a computerized database was established.
Innovation of Foreign R&D Centers in Israel: Evidence from Patent and Firm Level Data
The research sets out to investigate the impact of multinational companies (MNCs) on the Israeli economy in terms of demand for innovation.
Israel’s SETI system – a series of studied by UNESCO on science, engineering, technology and innovation policy
The study was commissioned by the Israel Academy of Sciences and will be published in UNESCO’s series of studies on Science, Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) policies during 2015.
Evaluating the Technion Excellence Program
In recent years, there has been a growing demand that scientists make science accessible to the general public, to allow both the existence and advancement of a society that supports and promotes knowledge, and for receiving support and legitimacy from the public to conduct scientific research.
Israel’s Land Policy and Housing Prices Abstract – Summary of Pilot Study
SNI has taken on the challenge to examine the reasons for the increase in housing prices in Israel. Among other things, it was found that investing efforts to curb the high housing prices ignores the implications of the fact that only in Israel, unlike all other OECD countries, most of the land reserves are nationally owned.
Integrating the Ultra-Orthodox Population in the Israeli Economy
The Ultra-orthodox (U-O) Integration Project was inaugurated at the Samuel Neaman Institute in 2010, following the recommendations of the ”Israel 2028” Project. The goals of the UOI Project were to investigate the subject and provide recommendations as to how to enhance the participation of the U-O population in the labor market in Israel. During the last 5 years, the project team has produced a multitude of analyses on various aspects of the subject matter and has published numerous reports, which in turn had significant impact on the national policy in this area.