Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, PROMOTE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FOSTER INNOVATION
Research
Carmel-Haifa Economic Corporation Ltd. is the technology commercialization and business arm of the University of Haifa. The company was founded to protect intellectual property and commercialize innovative technologies and services by forging strategic agreements with global partners, investors, and businesses. Carmel-Haifa launches, supports, and accelerates technologies and early stage startups from the lab to the marketplace. In 2020, Carmel- Haifa raised more than NIS 12.5 million, despite the challenges of COVID-19.
The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science (C.R.I.) is an advanced research institute at the forefront of interdisciplinary research in applications of computer science. The Institute’s technology track provides support to graduate students and faculty who wish to develop inventions and ideas that may have commercial or social value.
Public Engagement
As a pioneering innovation hub in Holocaust education and commemoration, the Weiss- Livnat Center for Holocaust Research and Education hosts 7 entrepreneurs from around the world who develop educational and commemorative projects – historical, artistic, and accessible through a digital platform.
The Arab Women Entrepreneur group runs in partnership with the Community Engagement Unit and the Arab Women Entrepreneurs NGO. Led by the lawyer Doa Harish, the group seeks to help University students gain skills necessary for entrepreneurship, as well as lead workshops for female, Arab middle school and high school students.
Learning & Students
University of Haifa’s one-year Global Green MBA program is guided by a commitment to sustainable business management practices. As a leader in water and renewable energy management and in developing innovative and sustainable technologies, University of Haifa is an ideal place to immerse in the dynamic intersection between environmental sustainability and business.
Launched in 2019, the Haifa Innovation Labs (HIL) instills and promotes an entrepreneurial environment on campus. The lab focuses on designing a better world through social innovation and impact entrepreneurship, as well as provides students with practical skills necessary to develop innovative and interdisciplinary solutions for societal and environmental challenges.
Operations
Ambitious in scope and visionary in impact, this past year the City of Haifa’s cable car project took its final steps towards completion. The cable car now connects the heavily trafficked Lev Hamifratz transportation center to the University station atop Mount Carmel.
ProteKt Therapeutic – a biotech company that has grown from a lab start-up at UofH – raised $3.6 million in post-incubation financing. ProteKt Therapeutic is developing promising PKR kinase inhibitor-based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s. The company was founded by Carmel- Haifa and the Carmel Innovations Fund based on the research of Prof. Kobi Rosenblum of the Sagol Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences.