1. “Israel’s capacity for science and research will be tested in the Negev"
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister(1958)

2. Negev Region - the new frontier and the hope for a better future
Under-developed and under-populated region (8% of Israel’s population on 60% of landmass)
Unique opportunities to fight desert Solution to regional problems

3. Beer-Sheva Municipality National Biotech Institute
BioNegev
Regional authorities
Beer-Sheva Municipality
Negev Dev. Authority
AT Park
Finance
B.G University
Start-up incubators
גופים מייצרי ידע
Industry
National Biotech Institute
Services companies
Shortage
Soroka Medical center
International corporation
BGN Tech Transfer

4. BioNegev Challenges Cultural bridging: Educating the Academics
Entrepreneurship Vs heavy investments (regional/ federal)
Decentralization Vs the herd instinct (100 law)
The curse of knowledge

5. Global challenge Barriers to biotechnology innovation:
High research costs, regulatory barriers, and market concentration can prevent new entrants, hindering biotechnological innovation, especially for small market applications.
Identify factors that can prevent the development of competitive and innovative markets for specific biotechnology applications.
2. Evaluate possible policy actions that could free up markets and access to knowledge, including encouraging public research institutions to adopt intellectual property guidelines that support rapid innovation and collaborative mechanisms for sharing knowledge.
The Bioeconomy to 2030 / OECD report 2009

6. BioNegev Agenda:
Create an ongoing dialogue among Institutes, individuals and firms.
Cross fertilization between Agriculture- healthcare and industrial Biotechnology
Leverage regional advantages to create multiple win changes

7. BioNegev activities:
Mobilize Govt. money towards high cost protein manufacturing facility (leveraging strategic partner)
Using Geopolitical trend to create awareness and raise funds
Leverage socio- economical buzz for establishing a new technology oriented community
Leveraging the Eco pressure towards bio renewing traditional chemistry industry (pharma to industry, solid state chemistry)
Leveraging computational skills, innovation advantage and local open mindedness to improve Tech transfer (mapping, proactive matching software)

8. Ben-Gurion University: Facts & Figures
Israel 3rd largest University
Israel’s fastest growing and most dynamic University: tripled growth over the past decade, to 17,500 students
32% of the engineering researchers in Israeli Universities
850 senior researchers
Interdisciplinary research and centers of excellence
Commitment to developing the Negev

9. Center of Excellence, Applied Research at BGU
Desertization solutions:
Environment and Energy
Water and Waste Water Treatments
Agriculture and Agro- biotechnology (Algae biology)
Life Sciences:
Pharmaceuticals and Drug Delivery
Biotechnology and Biomaterials (nanotech)
Medical Diagnostics and Devices
Medical IT
Chemistry and Chemical Processes
Information Technologies:
Communication
Electronics and Electro-optics
Image Processing and Restoration
Signal Processing, Remote Sensing

10. Soroka Medical Center Second largest in Israel
The only medical center in the region
An Academic Medical Center, fully Affiliated to BGU
Largest Maternal center in Israel (~1000 birth/Month)
Largest ER numbers in Israel
Center for populations genetics.

11. The Negev – Israel technology region
The National Institute for Biotechnology (NIBN)
Structural Biotechnology
Human Genetic Disorders
Computational Biotechnology
Immunology
Nano-Medicine
National institute for water technology
National institute for renewable energy

12. Advanced technologies Park KUD-BGU-Be’er Sheva Municipality
משולש המו"פ של באר שבע
Hotel & Conference center
ATP
Deutsche Telekom R&D center
Planned BioNegev headquarters and Negev Proteins site
BGU
Soroka
Med. Center
KUD-BGU-Be’er Sheva Municipality

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