{"id":1571,"date":"2023-05-14T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=kol_kore&p=1571"},"modified":"2023-05-23T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T08:40:09","slug":"a-national-infrastructure-for-bio-devices-rfi","status":"publish","type":"kol_kore","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/kol_kore\/a-national-infrastructure-for-bio-devices-rfi\/","title":{"rendered":"A National Infrastructure for Bio Devices – RFI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

On September 2020, the Innovation Authority alerted the National R&D Infrastructure Forum that there was a need to establish a long-term national program to promote the field of Bio-Convergence (BC) in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BC is a technological field that combines biologically based methods and technologies, together with knowledge and technologies from other fields such as physics, computer science, mathematics and engineering. The product of this combination will be interdisciplinary in its definition and objectives, as well as innovative and viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 2020, the National R&D Infrastructure Forum appointed an external committee to create such program, and it completed its work by December 2021. The main conclusion of the committee was that the Israeli government must intervene now in order to create a new economic growth engine based on an innovative ecosystem in the field of BC with a competitive advantage for Israeli industry, academic excellence and global leadership while the Israeli economy continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is assumed that the government’s intervention will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n