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Cambridge Professor Sir Richard Friend talks about his research and relationship with Israel’s Technion.

Head of national economic council Professor Eugene Kandel revealed to Israeli ministers that more than 100 alternative energies start-up companies are active in Israel today, in addition to 100 university-based research groups.

Samsung’s latest smartphone uses security software from Israel’s Discretix. It is also reported to use the innovative wireless recharging system developed by Israel’s Powermat.

Israel’s Technion patented a breakthrough technique that improves tenfold the performance of any type of sophisticated microscope and imaging system. It brings about the ability to view dynamically changing molecules smaller than the wavelength of light.

Guangzhou, located in China’s Pearl River Delta, isn’t the kind of setting in which one would expect to find a demonstration centre for Israel’s Better Place electric vehicle. But it is ideally positioned - just across the road from the largest auto mall in southern China.

There are more Jewish social innovators in Israel’s capital city than in any other city in the world.

"It was only natural that when we started to think about where we'd might locate a new research institute that we'd want to look at Israel," said Justin Rattner, Intel's Chief Technology Officer. The Israel Technion and Hebrew University will collaborate on the project.

Israeli religious high school students won third place out of 1,500 candidates – in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh. Nerya Stroh and Gal Oren, designed AquaStop - a user-friendly computerized device that detects and stops water leaks in buildings.

Israel-based Macadamia Apps, have developed StillShot that analyses videos taken on an iPhone and extracts each frame as an individual photo.

Big article in ComputerWorld magazine publicising Israel as the land where the USB flash drive was invented and where innovative companies such as Anobit and XtremIO are drawing American companies to their shores in droves to get a piece of the intellectual property pie.