Topic: innovation in Israel

February 20, 2014
5:37 pm

ID2's 'Class of 2014' (Photo credit: Netanel Tobias)

Former NZ PM Helen Clark ‘blown away’ by Israeli ingenuity

ID2, where 70 innovative thinkers convene to brainstorm, will produce the next generation of great ideas, organizers say

By David Shamah

February 18, 2014
6:22 pm

Professor Kenneth Grossberg (Center) with members of the Waseda Marketing Forum (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Viber deal may pave the way for Israeli tech to Japan

The world’s third largest economy remains largely ignorant of the Start-Up Nation, but this may all change soon, expert says

By David Shamah

January 24, 2014
1:54 pm

Hebrew University President Professor Menachem Ben-Sasson, center, looks on as Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann, left, greets Nobel Prize winner Yuan T Lee at an international science event held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, August 2012 (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Who’s most innovative of all? Not Israel, says Bloomberg

This year’s Global Innovation Quotient furnishes a reality check for the Start-Up Nation

By David Shamah

December 18, 2013
12:07 pm

Index table showing Israel's innovation ranking compared to other countries (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Canada, Israel and Switzerland top US innovation partners

From the web Forbes: According to the US-Israel Innovation Index, Israel is among the most innovative tech partners the US has

December 2, 2013
3:04 am

At the awards ceremony for Innovation Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. (L. to R.) Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director and Under-Secretary General of the the United Nations; Sivan Yaari, Founder and President of Innovation Africa; John W. Ashe, President of the United Nations General Assembly; Yiping Zhou, Director, United Nations Unit for South-South Cooperation UNDP New York (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Lighting up Africa with Israeli technology

Innovation: Africa nonprofit has helped over half a million people lead better and healthier lives with solar energy projects throughout the continent

By David Shamah

June 4, 2013
10:31 am

Israel still tops in tech, says start-up expert

Advanced training and true innovation make for a scene that doesn’t need to fear global competition

By David Shamah

January 17, 2013
10:08 pm

President Shimon Peres shakes hands with former US President Bill Clinton, during a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2010 (Photo credit: Sergei Illin/Flash 90)

Poll shows Israeli executives bullish on innovation

Society, youth, universities — even government– are pitching in to keep the ‘start-up nation’ ahead of the pack, a GE survey reveals

By David Shamah