The role of entrepreneurship in making Israel a "Start-up Nation" and the challenges in educating students to become entrepreneurs

Data di svolgimento: 
23/11/2016 - 10:00

Jotto, Netval and CRUI, together with the Israelian Embassy in Italy, organize a seminar on public-private technology transfer and high-tech entrepreneurship. The speakers, Rafi Nave and David Shem Tov, will share with participants some relevant experiences developed at Technion and in Israel, which is often called the “Start-Up Nation”.

 

 

Programma: 

Room 3, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

 

10.00 PIERDOMENICO PERATA, Rector, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Welcome and Introduction

10.15 RAFI NAVE, Head of Entrepreneurship, Technion

DAVID SHEM-TOV, Head Research Development, Technion

12.15 Questions & Answers

13.00 End of workshop

Docenti: 

Rafi Nave is the director of the Technion-wide Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, an interdisciplinary unit designed to leverage the Technion's expertise in innovative technologies and applications through research and hands-on education. The center focuses on entrepreneurship education of the Technion students and on organizing experiential events and programs to motivate the students and provide them with hands-on skills and support. Rafi lectures regularly at the Technion Visitors Center to delegations from all over the world. In the past 2 years he conducted business trips to the US, Italy, Brazil, Greece Turkey and the Netherlands, representing the Technion and the State of Israel and presenting to relevant audiences.

A Technion alumnus, Nave has led a distinguished career as a leader of Israel's applied technology sector, most recently as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Given Imaging Ltd., the world leader in non-invasive gastrointestinal tract diagnosis. In that capacity, he headed the development and delivery of the PillCam video-capsules, oversaw the development of a wide range of imaging and functional diagnostic products. Given imaging was a Global company that was sold in early 2014 to Covidien (now Medtronic).

He previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Tower Semiconductor Ltd., and prior to that, spent seven years as Vice President of Research and Development for NDS Limited, the world leader in pay-television systems. NDS was a Global company that was acquired by Cisco.

Israeli-born, Nave earned both his bachelors’ and masters’ degrees in electrical engineering (with honors) from the Technion. He started his lengthy career at Intel Israel in 1974, where he began as a chip design engineer and progressed through positions of increasing responsibility over 21 years. It was there that he led the development of Intel's family of 80X87 math co-processors and then served as General Manager of Intel's Haifa Design Center for five years.  Having co-authored the tutorial and questionnaire for the prestigious Israel Quality Prize, he is considered to be one of the "founding fathers" of the award and has been a senior judge for the past 25 years. He contributed to the adoption of TQM in Israel.  Nave has been awarded the Rothschild Prize for Industrial Developers by the President of the State of Israel, and the Intel Achievement Award. He held four patents. Nave and his wife live in Haifa, and have three children and four grandchildren.

David Shem Tov has over 17 years of experience in the field of open-innovation and entrepreneurship. He has broad experience in initiation and management of innovation based ventures including start-ups, global open-innovation consortia and tech-transfer projects. David established and managed the T-Factor, Technion's accelerator, and was responsible for the establishment and mentoring of startups from within the Technion's eco system. Before that, David managed the Global R&D Incentive Practice at Deloitte Israel, advising his clients how to implement their R&D plans and growth strategies through different kinds of incentives programs.

Mr. Shem-Tov also worked for a number of start-ups in Israel including Bpath and Camelot Information Systems.

In his current position, as the Head of Technion's Research Development Unit, David and his team are  responsible for the initiation of hundreds of research, innovation and tech-transfer projects.

David was recently nominated by the European Commission as an expert in career development of young researchers and he is taking an active role in the working group of the Steering Group of Human Resources Management and EURAXESS TOP III.

Mr. Shem-Tov holds a M.Sc. in International Management from Gothenburg School of Economics & Commercial Law, Gothenburg Univ. (Sweden).

 

Modalità di partecipazione: 

Participation is free
Registration is appreciated at the following link

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