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Special Acknowledgements
The BHLSI results from the collaborative work and the important contributions of many committed individuals who offered their time and expertise to inform the recommendations contained in the CJP Strategic Life Sciences Plan, “Growing the Greater Haifa Economy Through the Life Sciences” (RJR Blatt, 2004).
Appreciation is extended to all of the individuals in Massachusetts and Israel who contributed to this important strategic planning process.
Special recognition is also provided to the following members of the CJP Boston-Haifa Life Sciences Planning Committee for their early vision and ongoing support.
Boston, Massachusetts: Barry Shrage, Martin Abramowitz, Gideon Argov, Karen Doryoseph, Stuart Rossman, Penny Arons,
Stan Shindler, Michael Frieze, Myra Kraft
Haifa, Israel: Yossi Gluzman, Arnon Ratzkovsky, Avi Faigenbaum, Nurit Lev, Eitan Adres, Avi Feferkorn
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The CJP BHLSI team works collaboratively with partnering organizations in Massachusetts and Israel.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) of Greater Boston
The CJP is the major sponsor of the Center, as part of its long lasting commitment through the Boston-Haifa connection.
An ad-hoc group of Haifa and Boston business leaders founded the Haifa-Boston Connection in 1989, with the goal of helping the City of Haifa absorb large waves of immigration from the FSU.
Projects initially focused on job creation, including establishment of the Haifa Small Business Development Center and two technological incubators.
Personal connections between Haifa residents and members of the Boston Jewish community gradually developed over the course of the years, with hundreds of people presently involved in the Connection.
Haifa - Boston Connection partners include the Jewish Agency for Israel, the JDC, Haifa University, the Technion Institute of Technology, the Haifa Foundation, the Haifa Municipality, and dozens of associations and government agencies operating in Haifa.
MATI Haifa MATI Haifa was founded in 1991 as a non-profit organization by Haifa Municipality, Jewish agency, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Small Business Administration, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Boston Community C.J.P. and the Israeli chapter of the JDC.
MATI (Small Business Development Center) Haifa is committed to create jobs through the development and preservation of Israeli SME's in the Haifa metropolitan area. Its mission is to help potential entrepreneurs to start new successful businesses, and to assist existing businesses with consolidation and expansion. MATI serves as a "one-stop-shop", and provides services in the various business fields.
Manufacturers' Association
The MAI's Haifa and Northern Branch represents and serves industrial plants located in the greater Haifa area and the north of Israel, and which account for approximately one-third of the country's industrial force. The MAI has set itself the goal of promoting the status of industry in this region and is working towards planning and designing an attractive and supportive environment that will serve as fertile ground for establishing and developing industrial plants.
The Haifa and Northern Branch of the MAI was established more than 70 years' ago by the founders of industry in the area. It is a professional and accessible address for the hundreds of MAI members in the north, who employ around 60,000 workers, comprising about 60% of the industrial work force in the north. 35% of the Northern Branch members have plants situated in Haifa and the Bay Area, while over 65% have plants in the Lower and Upper Galilee.
Haifa Economic Corporation Ltd
Established in 1972 with the aim of promoting the development of the city, Haifa Economic Corporation Ltd. is a wholly owned concern of Haifa municipality, and operated as an independent business entity. Since its inception, it has initiated and developed highly successful projects, significantly contributing to the city's infrastructure, environmental development and high profile as a business venue.
The focus of Haifa Economic Corporation is on three main objectives:
- Attracting growth-intensive business enterprises
- Furthering the development of the city
- Enhancing public assets
To achieve these objectives, Haifa Economic Corporation has been involved in the development, management, and implementation of a wide range of projects in the following categories:
- Environmental development
- Infrastructure development
- Promotion of business enterprises
To ensure the success of its projects, the Corporation conducts a wide range of comprehensive feasibility studies in cooperation with public authorities, and the relevant bodies and institutions. These studies provide the solid foundation upon which Haifa Economic Corporation projects are built and move smoothly toward successful completion.
To this end the Corporation also works in conjunction with such bodies as the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Government Tourist Office, Israel Lands Authority, Israel Sports Betting Board, Ministry of the Environment, Ports and Trains Authority, Israel Electric Corporation, Technion Institute of Technology, University of Haifa, and others.
Throughout the development and implementation of its projects, Haifa Economic Corporation is involved in every stage of activity, from initial presentation of ideas to various bodies, through consolidating ideas into a workable plan of action, and recruiting the relevant authorities to promote the plan, to management and negotiation towards implementation, preparation of all required documentation, recruiting capital, and more. Upon completion of the development stages, the project moves on to actual planning and implementation. For some projects Haifa Economic Corporation approaches the private sector in order to recruit capital and dilute risk, and to realize the potential for building trust among potential investors in the city.
Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment
There is no environment where the foundation of human innovation and high technology is as strong as it is in Massachusetts. With the Milken Institutes’ Report of June 2005 once again listing Massachusetts as the #1 ranked state for Life Sciences, it is no wonder why the top companies in the Life Science industry choose to base their businesses here.
Massachusetts’ over 700 life science companies including medical devices as well as deep institutional research base would be a perfect fit for your companies needs. Not only is Massachusetts the birthplace of many biotech industry leaders, it has also become the recognized location for investment by companies that want to access our world-leading innovation economy.
Massachusetts also offers your company access to the country's most concentrated capital markets and one of the most educated, innovative and productive workforces in the world. Massachusetts venture capital distributed $746M to Biotechnology companies in 2004 leading the United States on a per capita basis. With over 8% of the global drug pipeline and the home to some of the finest universities, medical schools, hospitals and research institutions in the world, Massachusetts truly offers the keys to success in biopharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing.
Through the Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment, we take a focused approach to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) based on a “Team Massachusetts / One-Stop-Shopping" model, enlisting specialists from state, municipal and non-profit organizations to address foreign investors’ specific needs and guide them through the entire development process. Any foreign company wishing to invest in Massachusetts is eligible to contact and work with MOITI, from project inception, through establishment of an operation or facility in Massachusetts.
For more information please contact 1-877-Biz-Team or visit www.mass.gov/bizteam
"Northern Israel Life sciences and Biotechnology Network"
A Northern Cluster for Biotechnology Industries’ has been initiated by the S. Neaman Institute in order to promote collaboration between northern biotechnological companies and academic researchers. The rational for that initiative was twofold: (i) research in biotechnology is being conducted all over the world in clusters and (ii) biotechnology and biomedical engineering have become the fastest growing industrial sectors worldwide, and are reshaping science, especially in the life, medical, food and agricultural sciences.
In order to promote the initiative, the S. Neaman Institute has held meetings of leading scientists and representatives from the biotechnological companies in this area.
For more information, please visit:
www.bionorth.org.il
