www.moital.gov.il/madan.htm

Launching Horizon 2020

Avi Hasson, Chief Scientist

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity” (Michael Porter)

Innovation / R&D

Employment Growth

Branding

Government plays a key role in optimizing the ecosystem

Infrastructure Risk sharing Social goals

Competitive R&D

Basic Research

Pre-Competitive Research

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International Cooperation – Why cooperate?

• Access to know-how, innovation and infrastructures

• Share the risk and costs of R&D

• Shortens the needed development period and

time-to-market

• Sharing of IP leads to future high-quality cooperation

• Generate growth through technological cooperation

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International Cooperation with Europe

Multinational Companies

Multinational Cooperation:

European Bilateral Cooperation:

15 agreements with

European countries:

Germany

France

Italy

Sweden

Finland

Austria

Greece…

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The European Framework – A Strategic Program

• Largest R&D program in the world

• A bridge to Israel’s biggest trade partner

• Total of ~80 Billion euros – largest ever EU research

and Innovation program

• Israel will pay more 750 million NIS

per year for participating in the program

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Performance of Israel in FP7 – Mutual Success

• 8,880 submissions 2,110 successes

• Academia – EUR 574M , Industry – EUR 203M

• Total participation in 1,536 projects (signed agreements)

• Benefiting from a total of EUR 834M EU contribution

(~1.6 NIS for every 1NIS we paid)

The “side” benefits to the Israeli research community in

both industry and academia are much more substantial

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Challenges and opportunities in H2020

• Keeping the high success rate of academic

institutions

• Enhancing the share of the Industry in the grants

• Pushing new firms and researchers to participate

in the program leveraging gained experience and

new pillars

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Taking the initiative

• Understanding the rules of the game

• Waiting only for call for proposals isn’t

good enough anymore –

Many decisions will be made

beforehand

• Participation in setting the agenda

is crucial!

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What needs to be done

Joint effort – Industry, academia and government

• What we plan to do:

• Encouraging appropriate firms and researchers to be

active participants in the program

• Helping new participants cross the bridge for the first

time

• Increasing the involvement of relevant ministries

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Israel in the ERA - a successful partnership