A Tiny Country's Big Success with Tech Transfer

Autor/in	Kalman, Matthew
Titel	A Tiny Country's Big Success with Tech Transfer
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 6, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Economic Development; College Faculty; Teacher Researchers; Foreign Countries; Industry; Technology Transfer; Research Universities; Agricultural Engineering; Drug Therapy; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Fakultät; Lehrerforschung; Ausland; Industrie; Technologietransfer; Forschungseinrichtung; Agrarindustrie; Agronomie; Agrarwissenschaft
Abstract	This article reports that despite the doubts about education financing, Israel's innovative companies spun off by universities show no signs of slowing down, as new drugs and other discoveries have produced huge incomes. Thirty years ago, two researchers at Hebrew University set about to make a better tomato. One that was firmer, stayed fresher longer, and could be harvested more easily. Haim D. Rabinowitch and his doctoral supervisor, Nachum Kedar, genetically engineered such a seed in 1973, setting off a worldwide revolution in tomato cultivation. It also made their university a lot of money. The technology-transfer arm of Hebrew University, known as Yissum, earned $51-million last year in royalties, partly from the seeds it licenses to two Israeli companies. Those companies, Hazera and Zeraim Gedera, which were eventually sold to Vilmorin and Syngenta, also employ many graduates of the university's agricultural school. The tomato-seed revolution, which has helped bring Hebrew University about $1-billion, is not even Yissum's biggest moneymaker these days. Drugs for Alzheimer's disease and cancer also bring in millions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10