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Hungarian-EU-Israel Workshop Hungarian-EU-Israel Workshop on Start-Ups and Innovation on Start-Ups and Innovation

Panel Discussion on Start – Ups and Innovation National Policies

Tel Aviv, May 30 2010

Moderator: Dr. Gilead Fortuna



Panel Participants• Yosi Smoler, Technological Incubators Program Director , OCS

MOITAL, Israel• Zsombor Lacza MD, CEO, Semmelweis Innovations LLC,

Budapest, Hungary• Juha Ruohonen, CEO Arvoketju Oy. Consultant to TEKES, Finland • Dr. Jan Dexel, DG for Enterprise & Innovation, Netherlands • Jana Baseova, Director of Investment Projects, Czechinvest,

Czech Republic• Fergus Harradence, Dep. Director, Dept. of Business Innovation,

United Kingdom• Dr. Gilead Fortuna, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Industrial

Excellence Center, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Israel

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Thinking on “Innovation”

• Innovation = Doing things in different way from yesterday

• Start Up = Technology driven

• Success = competitiveness, contribution, great ROI

• Complex system = Innovate with Excellence, Quality, Funding, Marketing…

• Focus but Flexible

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Questions for Policy DiscussionQuestions for Policy Discussion1. Basic Infrastructure Resources:

– Human resources – basic and technical education.

– Capital resources - Government financial support and tax incentives for innovations.

2. Advanced support for innovation:– Generic technologies prioritization – Industrial sectors prioritization

3. Which is the ration between the routes?



Questions for DiscussionQuestions for Discussion

1. Innovation eco-systems are different for each country.

2. Should we – design different policy for each country?

or – employ best practice model for all?

3. How can we implement each option?



More Questions for DiscussioMore Questions for Discussionsns3. How to relate to different sectors where the

time frame is much longer than ICT?4. Privatization of the incubators – lesson learnt

and recommendation for the future privatization?

5. How can we motivate SME to support internal innovations and growth of new ideas?

6. The conflict of systematic systems Vs. the need for breakthroughs and disruptive technologies implications?

7. Government criteria's in approving disruptive technologies projects



Open Discussion

• Questions from all participants

• Remarks from all participants

• Final remarks and answers from the panel members

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