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Luring low- and high-tech to the Negev desert

As reported in Israel 21C: In a tribute to founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, two former IDF colonels have set up a technology incubator designed to green southern Israel. Israel’s Negev desert is a development challenge, but a new incubator called the Green Group hopes to bring jobs and services to the area. A long, […]

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Quality control for alternative energy success

As reported in IVC: Israel’s BrightView Systems aims to encourage solar energy use by optimizing efficiency, improving quality and ensuring the reliability of solar panels. For hybrid cars, wind power, and solar energy technology, there’s more than just creative innovation involved in producing the batteries, generators and panels needed to drive the technologies forward. Reasonably-priced […]

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The Israel Conference™ Features over $200 Billion in Revenues and Investment Capital from Industry Lions of Israel-Facing Companies

  As reported by IVC,  the Israel Conference™ featured an array of over 60 CEOs speaking about their companies and representing over $200B in revenues and investment capital. This second annual conference for Israel-facing companies took place on Thursday, June 3, 2010 in Los Angeles at the Luxe Hotel. Over 60% of the 700 business […]

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Thinking ‘inside the box’ to save energy and money

As reported in IVC: A new Israeli device gets inside your electric box so you can control your appliances remotely and program them according to the power company’s peak hours and discounts. Your electric bill has gone sky high. You suspect the air conditioner, which has been emitting a rattling noise since you fired it […]

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10 reasons Israel is a cleantech leader

Israel, a global cleantech powerhouse, is now attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in cleantech investment every year. The country gets more from its soil, water, air, and sunlight than most other nations on earth. Why has such a small country been able to position itself a world leader in cleantech? The answer, I believe, […]

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Cleantech VC reaches $1.9B in 1Q10

As reported by IVC Online, transportation attracted $704M this past quarter, while energy efficiency and solar remain key sectors to watch, according to latest Cleantech Group data. Cleantech venture capital investment was up 29 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to last quarter, and 83 percent higher than the same quarter a year […]

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DELL MAKES FIRST ACQUISTION IN ISRAEL: BUYS ISRAELI DATA STORAGE COMPANY EXANET

As reported in Invest In Israel, Leading technology provider Dell acquired Israeli start-up Exanet, which deals in data storage development, for $12 million. Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners. Exanet storage system solutions are hardware independent. Their clustered NAS software storage solution provides single file system […]

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Renewable Energy Technology Center to Open in Israel

The Technology Center will focus on entrepreneurship of renewable energy solutions. Its objective will be to enable entrepreneurs to develop renewable energy R&D projects, and bring them to advanced stages of testing, and ultimately, to marketability and export.

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ISRAEL OPENS TWO CLEANTECH R&D CENTERS IN THE SOUTH

To boost entrepreneurial activity and encourage further innovation in the cleantech sector, Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor is creating a renewable energy center and a water technology center in the Negev. The centers will be established following a tender procedure including Israeli and international investors and have an approved 5-year budget of 100 […]