As reported in Port2Port: Israeli exports to India in the first half of this year equaled USD 990 million, an increase of 102% in dollar terms compared to the same period last year. China rose to fifth place.
During the first half of 2010, India became Israel’s second-biggest export market from eighth; China climbed to 5th [...]
As reported in Israel 21C: Biondvax Pharmaceuticals, based in central Israel in Ness Ziona, has won the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2010 European Influenza Vaccines Technology Innovation Award for its breakthrough work on a universal influenza vaccine.
The Multimeric-001 vaccine is designed to provide multi-season and multi-strain protection against most influenza virus strains, including both seasonal and [...]
During the last week of November 2010, The Mofet Institute are planning on holding an 8-day study tour – “T& T and ICT”, dealing with the topic of ICT in Education. The study tour is designed for educators who are active in assimilating communication technologies into diverse educational systems.
They will introduce the tour participants to Israeli hi-tech emphasizing [...]
As reported in Israel 21C: An Israeli team is the first to succeed in identifying one of the chemicals used by thousands of prey species to avoid their predators.
Inspired by the follow-up book Since Silent Spring, Prof. Leon Blaustein felt driven to find environmentally compatible solutions for combating insect pests. Not much had been done [...]
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In a joint initiative, Amdocs, which develops billing and customer management relations solutions for telecommunications providers, and US telecommunications giant AT&T are setting up the Amdocs Innovations Center, which will enable Israeli companies to develop products and solutions with Amdocs for AT&T.
The innovations center aims to foster collaboration with telephone, mobile phone and smartphone manufacturers, [...]
As reported in Port2Port: The Bank of Israel has left the interest rate unchanged after announcing a 0.25% hike at the end of last month
Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer announced last Monday that interest rate for September would stay at 1.75%. The Bank of Israel has left the interest rate unchanged after announcing [...]
As reported in IVC: The projects’ total aggregate budget is $12.8 million.
Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD-F) unit BIRD Energy will invest $4.2 million in five new joint renewable energy projects by US and Israeli companies. The projects’ total aggregate budget is $12.8 million.
The projects are a system for energy efficiency in [...]
As reported in IVC: Renault has begun field tests in Israel of the electric car for Better Place.
French carmaker Renault SA has begun fields tests in Israel of the electric car for Shai Agassi’s Better Place LLC. Marketing of the cars is due to begin next year.
Two prototypes of the Renault Fluence ZE, tailored for [...]
As reported in IVC: CEO Ofer Haviv: Given the extreme global weather, it is critical to maintain stable food supplies for people, and there will probably be a need for advanced technologies.
Plant genetic engineering company Evogene Ltd. sees great potential in the soaring price for wheat over the past two years, and it has embarked [...]