Reforming Parental Leave: doing good to newborns, their parents and the economy
The policy for parental leave written in this research will accomplish 5 goals: achieving best development of the child, securing the mother’s physical and mental health, enabling the father’s participation in raising the child, reducing the gender gap, and alleviating the financial burden on young families. These goals are achieved without the need for high […]
Building an Enhancing Mexico’s Entrepreneurial Culture: Powerful Narratives as the “Missing link”
This essay proposes a method for building and enhancing Mexico’s entrepreneurial startup culture, by creating and disseminating powerful narratives or stories, about startups, as a crucial often-missing link in the causal entrepreneurial chain. It reviews and summarizes key research papers published in the last four years or so and draws lessons from Israel’s experience.
Research to examine and recommend future national infrastructures in research, development and experiments
Samuel Neaman Institute won in 2019, a tender to perform research for the National Committee for Research Infrastructures of the MOLMOP in the Ministry of Science and Technology. The purpose of the study was to examine the needs for infrastructures for research, development and experiments in Israel, with focus on infrastructures that contribute to academic-industrial […]
Project Based Learning
This essay surveys research published in the past four years or so, on how innovative schools employ project-based learning to motivate and inspire children
Greenhouse Gases emissions registry in Israel accounting and reporting protocol
The Israeli GHG registry was designed by collaborate team from the environmental protection ministry, The Samuel Neaman Institute and Ecotraders Ltd with a wide team of stake holders. The goal of the team was to develop a protocol with clear instructions that will guide organizations and companies from all sectors through the process of accounting […]
Violence, Crime and Policing in Arab Towns
Link to the full publication In recent years, there has been a steep rise in the rates of crime and violence in Arab society. In 2018, 71 Arab civilians were killed. The proportion of those killed that year is 61%. 15 of those killed in Arab society – women. The main causes of violence […]
Can universities foster students’ intent to become entrepreneurs?
This essay surveys research published in the past four years or so, on how universities can foster the intention of students to launch entrepreneurial startups. The main conclusion from these 25-30 research papers is this: While universities seek to foster entrepreneurship, their dominant academic approach to teaching anything — classrooms, textbooks, curricula, lectures and problem […]
Women in Technological and Scientific Entrepreneurship
This research identifies obstacles that prevent women from becoming involved in entrepreneurship in research and technology and suggests ways to increase women’s participation in entrepreneurial activities at the Technion and beyond. The two research questions posed are: What are the obstacles that prevent more women from becoming involved in entrepreneurial activities and what is necessary […]
Characterizing master plan for the industrial park Mishor Rotem
Industrial zone Mishor Rotem is the largest in Israel. Some major industries already reside there, hence the purpose of this research is to characterize a master plan for future development and realization of its national-wise, great potential.
Energy Forum 47: Combined Photovoltaic and Storage Systems to Produce Electricity From Solar Energy
In 2018, installations providing more than 100 giga-watts of solar energy were built worldwide, and the total global capacity of this energy was higher than 500 giga-watts. This volume represents an increase of 4% as compared to 2017, in comparison with an increase of 30% and 50% in the previous two years, respectively. In 2018, […]
