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The Other Side of the Start-Up Nation
Alongside the Blossom of the Start Up industry, we need to find the way to grow bigger companies that will enable to expand the innovation fruits to wider population for the benefit of the Israel economy. The article relates to the dilemmas and optional solutions.
Getting Future Ready
Israel may be a land of hi-tech milk and honey but when it comes to public services it has yet to enter the 21st century. Carmela Avner became the Government’s first CIO Chief Information Officer, and moved Israel ahead toward e-Government – but after nearly 18 months in office, she has resigned; others will need to carry on with her work.
Technion in China
A Hong Kong entrepreneur joins
forces with an Israeli university to spur
innovations in mainland China
Waste separation: Start with institutions and factories
The state relies on the good will of the citizens to separate the wet and dry waste. Why not force the big businesses, and even the army and prisons, to start the revolution?
Garbage dreams
If one wants to deal with the problem of separating organic waste and motivate households to separate waste at the source, we need to let big businesses start the process
Predicting the future
Kira Radinsky, 27, was recently selected for MIT Technology Review’s list of leading global innovators under 35.
How to turn a small enterprise into a great success
You should draw conclusions from Israeli peer group who successfully deal with the difficult test of making small, traditional industrial enterprises, numbering less than – 50 employees, to large enterprises that sell in more than 100 million shekels a year.
The professional solution for quality education
Vocational education suffers from a negative public image, for example: Amnon Levy’s unfortunate statements. In reality, it is a valuable asset to the general population of talented students who do not achieve their potential in the theoretical academic stream of education.
The chosen few
How literacy helped the Jews: This new book, The Chosen Few, shows how the Jewish people survived and thrived, until the Iberian Expulsion of 1492, because of Torah study and widespread literacy – which became the Jews’ core competency and made them key players in global business and banking. It was not anti-Semitism that shaped the Jews’ destiny, but literacy.
