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Knowledge flow in Technological Business Incubators: Evidence from Australia and Israel

The study of the contribution of incubators to economic growth started to gain momentum in the 1980s, following the growth of the incubation phenomenon. While acknowledging the challenge of evaluating incubators׳ outcomes, we shift the focus from incubators׳ performance to their internal processes, in particular, the interrelationships through which the incubator stakeholders share knowledge. The […]

R&D Outputs in Israel: International Comparison of Scientific Publications, 2000-2014

This is the third in a series of studies financed by the Samuel Neaman Institution and the National Council for R&D (NCRD). The study’s findings are as follows: International comparison indicates that Israel’s ranking continues a downward trend in various quantitative indices: number of publications, number of publications per capita, its share in global and […]

Promoting R&D and Innovation in the Israeli Periphery – Final report

The study, commissioned by the Israel National Council for Research and Development (MOLMOP) at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, was aimed at providing decision makers with an updated account of the innovation and R&D activities in Israel’s peripheral areas. The study, completed in 2016, identified the potential of Israel’s peripheral areas to stimulate […]

Research universities in the national R&D in Israel

This work provides an overview and analysis of the contributions of the Israeli research universities to the nation’s R&D system within an international comparative context. The report begins with a review of the structure and governance of the R&D systems in a number of countries, (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 reviews the evolution of universities in […]

Dual Use of Space technologies and satellites

The dictated space system development method and system characteristics results systems with high similarity between commercial (civilian) systems and military one, i.e. most of them are with a nature of Dual Use (DU). This report reviews the status of DU operational modes and their usage, in the world and specifically in Israel in the specific […]