27000
YOZMOT HAEMEK TECHNOLOGICAL INCUBATOR
POB 73, MIGDAL HAEMEK 23100, ISRAEL;
TEL: 972-4-6544800; FAX: 972-4-6543082;
E-MAIL: maoz_dir@ofek.org.il WEB: www.ofek.org.il
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DIRECTOR
Mr. Avri Maoz
The incubator was founded in 1993 and is located in the Jezre'el
Valley on the outskirts of the town of Migdal HaEmek, 35
kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Haifa.
The incubator's principal task is to provide the support,
guidance and environment essential for both new immigrant and
veteran Israeli scientist-entrepreneurs to develop innovative
ideas and to transform them into marketable products and
commercially successful enterprises. Each project receives an
annual budget from the Office of the Chief Scientist of the
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. MBA students from the Ross
School of Business at the University of Michigan Business School
travel to the incubator to accumulate information in order to
write business plans/market entry strategies for the projects.
Fifty-one such business plans and market entry strategies have
been written in the last twelve years.
The incubator provides the project initiators with working space,
administrative, logistic, legal and secretarial support, as well
as with business management and financial consultants.
Currently 10 projects are active in the incubator. Their fields
of activity are:
* Metallurgy & Metal Treatment;
* Medical Diagnostics & Medical Instrumentation;
* Gas storage facility
* Pharmaceutics
* Health care
* Agrotechnology
* Medical devices
* Solar heating
* Diesel fuel & water emulsion