July 

2010

          R&D News from ISRAEL     
MATIMOP
Israel Chief Scientist  
Israel Technology Incubators Program
VISTECH 
Eureka - ISRAEL
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The Victoria Israel Technology Research and Development Fund   

The seventh call for proposals for the VISTECH fund has just closed. There have currently been more than 12 joint projects successfully funded since VISTECH was launched in 2005. Out of these 12 projects, 3 have successfully been commercialized and have gone to market in this relatively short time span.
The Victoria-Israel Technology R&D Fund (VISTECH) was established to promote, facilitate and support jointly approved science and technology research and development (R&D) projects between Israeli and Victorian Companies.For more information, please click here. 

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Matimop Director General Visits Australia

Mr. Michel Hivert - Director General of Matimop, The Israeli Industry Center for R&D, visited Australia from 29th April -4th May 2010. MATIMOP is the Israeli government agency that generates and implements international cooperative industrial R&D programs between Israeli and foreign enterprises.
On Michel’s visit he met with Federal organizations, and the relevant people from both the New South Wales and Victorian Governments. There is currently an open dialogue between MATIMOP and the relevant Australian organizations to see the possibility of strengthening the cooperation in R&D between the two countries.
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  Israel Takes Eureka Chairmanship which is the Worlds Largest Research and Development Initiative 
Israel became the first non-European state to head the EUREKA Network, EUREKA is the leading industrial R&D initiative in Europe and the largest of its kind in the world with investments of 1.5 billion Euros every year.
Dr. Eli Opper Israel’s  Chief Scientist  will serve as the organization’s chairman. In recent years, Israel became one of the five most active members in Eureka boasting the same number of projects as much bigger [EU] countries.
Out of nearly 300 new projects initiated by Eureka in 2008, 40 involved Israeli companies. As the head of the pan-European, inter-governmental initiative, Israel has planned five conferences, starting in Tel Aviv in October and culminating in Jerusalem in June 2011.
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   Israel and Taiwan Sign Joint Research and Development Agreement

Following a successful delegation of Israeli companies to Taiwan, Taiwan and Israel signed an MOU, which included the creation of a new funding mechanism for private sector R&D projects.
The industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI), and the Israeli Industry Center for R&D (MATIMOP) signed the bilateral framework to form the Taiwan – Israel program for Industrial R&D, with a primary aim to support joint industrial R&D projects aimed at development of products or processes leading to commercialization in the global market. In particular, the program would focus on joint R&D projects in the fields of Cloud Computing, Green Energy and Communication.
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    Israel and China to collaborate on Research and Development

Israeli companies will be eligible to receive up to 50% of R&D costs in projects with Chinese counterparts.
Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and China’s Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang signed an R&D cooperation agreement in Jerusalem.
The agreement is important for Israeli entrepreneurs who want to do business in China, which is an increasingly important market for foreign companies, including from Israel.
China’s rapid urbanization, its huge need to build infrastructures of every kind, and the big money that this rapidly growing economy has at its disposal creates a magnet for entrepreneurs. At the same time, the euro crisis is dragging down the world’s stock markets, further strengthening China’s attractiveness.
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Israeli proposals win EU Research and Development grants
The latest grants boost the total to Israeli firms under the EU7 to date to €290 million.
The fifth call for papers by the EU Seventh Framework Progamme for Research and Development (FP7) for joint projects in software, hardware, and communications has resulted in 34 projects by Israeli and European companies, with an aggregate budget of €17 million.
The latest grants boost the total grants to Israeli companies under the EU7 to date to €290 million.
Chief Scientist Dr. Eli Opper, who heads the Israel-European R&D Directorate (ISERD) steering committee, said, “The results of the call for papers testifies to the great importance of Israeli participation in European programs in general, and the synergies created between European and Israeli industry in particular.”
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