Environmental technologies – the green future
The field of environmental technology development includes a very wide range of activities. In the study, which is conducted jointly by the Samuel Neaman Institute, Globes Research and Kesselman & Kesselman, we show that there are very large opportunities in the new market and that the government must take a series of actions realize these […]
Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance STE-WP-35
We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model technology licensing offices, using new survey information combined with panel data on 86 U.S. universities for the period 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt […]
KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE PROPERTY RIGHTS (STE-WP-39)
Venture capitalism is a major institutional innovation based on identifying economies of scope in transactions of technological knowledge, bundled with managerial competence, reputation, screening procedures and equity. It has paved the way to the emergence of new surrogate markets for knowledge, i.e. financial markets specialized in trading knowledge-intensive property rights. This development has important benefits […]
The Limits of Capital: Transcending the Public Financer – Private Producer Split in R&D (STE-WP-40)
Despite a strong tendency in the privatization literature to prefer private sector solutions to public sector ones, in the case of R&D a near consensus has emerged that supports public R&D funding for private production as a solution to a host of market failures. This article explores theoretical justifications for a more expansive role for […]
The status of Israel and the Technion research in comparison to selected countries and institutes using bibliometrics indices
The current publication is part of a work which was carried out within the framework of the Neaman Institute and was ordered by the Technion. The review goal was to examine the level of the engineering research at the Technion and at other Israeli universities in comparison to the world using objective tools. In addition, […]
Innovation Policy for Development: an Overview STE-WP-34
This paper provides a framework for thinking about innovation policies for development. In such context innovation should be construed as a very broad notion that includes product and in process innovations of various sorts, generated by rank and file workers as much as by R&D labs. The economic rationale for government support of R&D needs […]
Microeconomic Insights from Israel’s Venture Capital Emergence: Towards a Theory of Evolutionary Targeting of Infant Industries STE-33-2006
The development of Venture Capital in Israel during 1993-2000 is an example of policy-led industry emergence. The Israeli targeted policy adapted to trigger Venture Capital emergence is an example of successful infant industry policy. This policy stands on its own as a separate class, due to its non-conventional configuration and high impact. This paper both […]
The Dye Famine and its Aftermath: Knowledge Diffusion and Entry STE-WP-32
Redefining Engineering Disciplines for the 21st Century
In the first quarter of the 20th Century engineering education underwent a revolutionary change as a result of the penetration of the exact sciences into the curriculum. Consequently, instead of teaching current technologies, engineering schools began teaching all-embracing fundamental principles of the engineering sciences that can cope with the quickly changing technologies. But, in the […]
Report PRIME ENIP Project Indices Data Scienc Technology Israel
This report was published as part of the project “European Network for Indicator Producers, PRIME-ENIP”. Its purpose is to establish a network of indicator producers in the fields of science and technology, based on the experience of recognized institutions, laboratories, research groups and indicator producers, in order to develop the ability and knowledge of providing […]