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Institutional Sponsors
Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) - Israel's largest and most comprehensive
institution of higher learning - is home to over 30,000 students studying
in nine faculties and over 125 schools and departments across the spectrum
of sciences, humanities and the arts.
Situated in Israel's cultural, financial and technological capital,
TAU shares Tel Aviv's unshakable spirit of openness and innovation – and boasts
a campus life as dynamic and pluralistic as the metropolis itself. Tel Aviv the
city and Tel Aviv the university are one and the same – a thriving
Mediterranean center of diversity and discovery.
Consistently ranked in the top 20 in the world in terms of
scientific citations and among the top 100 universities internationally, Tel
Aviv University is also Israel's first choice for students, and its graduates
are the most sought after by Israeli companies. Global in outlook and impact,
TAU advances teaching and research that break down the walls between
disciplines, striving to address the twenty-first century's most pressing
challenges through bold, interdisciplinary solutions.
From its inception almost 50 years ago, the School of
Management has been a hub for world-class research and teaching. Training
generations of leaders who have helped define key areas in the Israeli private
and public sectors, including business, government, and academia, the School is
widely recognized as the foremost provider of management education in Israel.
The School’s outstanding reputation and global reach
are the result of its steadfast commitment to advancing uncompromising
excellence. Over the years we have consistently worked to push our academic
standards higher, while at the same time developing new programs and
diversifying our teaching methodologies so as to provide our students with a
rich, multidisciplinary learning experience. Nurturing our students and
breaking new grounds in research have been our remarkable faculty, an
extraordinary group of scholars, teachers and practitioners who boast a
powerful combination of top academic training coupled with hands-on business
experience.
Today, we rank among the world’s leading business
schools in a variety of criteria, including the quality and scope of our
faculty, the level of our academic research, and the caliber of our students.
No wonder our MBA program was recently ranked 11th in the world
for producing VC-backed entrepreneurs. We are also the only business school in
Israel accredited by AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business), the prestigious global network of business schools
maintaining the highest standards of achievement.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Business Administration
The Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1918, is Israel’s premier university
as well as its leading research institution. The Hebrew University is ranked
internationally among the 100 leading universities in the world and first among
Israeli universities.
The
recognition the Hebrew University has attained confirms its reputation for
excellence and its leading role in the scientific community. It stresses
excellence and offers a wide array of study opportunities in all academic
fields. The university encourages multi-disciplinary activities in Israel and
overseas and serves as a bridge between academic research and its social and
industrial applications.
The
Hebrew University has set as its goals the training of future leadership in all
sectors; the preservation of and research into Jewish, cultural, spiritual and
intellectual traditions; and the expansion of the boundaries of knowledge for
the benefit of all humanity.
These goals are best exemplified
by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration, Israel's leading business
school, prepares its graduates to meet these challenges and gives them the
tools that will enable them to lead and succeed.
Since its establishment in 1952,
the School's goal has been to develop the next generation of business leaders
and push the envelope of knowledge in the field of business management.
The School has won broad
international recognition and is the top Israeli institution in international
rankings of academic business schools.
The proof is in the 2000
top-tier students and the thousands of alumni playing key managerial roles in
all walks of professional life.
The university’s and school’s primary
arm in the promotion of research and study in the field of entrepreneurship is
the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship
& Innovation:
Established
in 2001, the mission of The Asper Center at the Hebrew University is to promote
Israeli entrepreneurship, by supporting community and academic projects.
Building on the entrepreneurial spirit and the social wisdom of the late Israel
Asper and his foundation, The Asper Center at the Hebrew University initiates
and supports a wide array of programs that contribute to entrepreneurial growth
on a multitude of levels. To achieve this goal, the center seeks to identify and
nurture creative capital in multiple ways, including:
·Providing students at all levels with an opportunity to
experience advanced entrepreneurial content
·Acting as a catalyst in the establishment of new ventures based
on ideas developed at the Hebrew University
·Advancing world-class entrepreneurial research that contributes
to the quality of entrepreneurial activities across the social strata
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
Technion has 18 academic departments in engineering, natural sciences, medicine and architecture, as well as 60 research centers. There are currently close to 14,000 students at the Technion. Technion graduates have brought the unique skills and penchant for innovation, which helped conceive and consolidate the modern State of Israel – commonly acknowledged to be the “Start-up Nation.” Technion graduates founded and/or lead two-thirds of Israeli companies on NASDAQ.
The Technion is renowned for its scientific and technological breakthroughs. The file compression algorithm used for “zipping” files was developed by Technion Profs. Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, and has become an international standard for data compression. The Azilect® drug for Parkinson’s disease was developed by Profs. Moussa Youdim and John Finberg, together with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and is sold world-over. The Nobel Prizes in Chemistry received by Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman in 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals and by Distinguished Profs. Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover in 2004 for their discovery of ubiquitin are a definitive demonstration of Technion’s collective strength and innovation-stimulating environment.
Technion’s impact is not confined to Israel; it is also the first Israeli university to establish a presence overseas. In 2011, a partnership between Cornell University and Technion won a prestigious international competition to establish a new applied science institute in New York City, leading to the founding of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute (JTCII). In 2013, Technion announced the establishment of the Technion–Guangdong Institute of Technology (TGIT) adjacent to Shantou University in southern China, which will grant undergraduate and graduate Technion degrees. This landmark collaboration was made possible by a donation to Technion from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, combined with a strategic investment by Guangdong Province.
Benefactor
Start-Up Nation Central
Start-up
Nation Central: Your Gateway to Israeli Innovation
There
is an indefinable spark that ignites when those with problems find those with
solutions.
It’s the light that appears at the end of the tunnel, a unique spark
of opportunity – and it is precisely this spark of opportunity that Start-Up
Nation Central creates. An authoritative source on the Israeli innovation
community, we leverage our in-depth and expansive knowledge to find the best
answer to even the most pressing of challenges. We have curated the largest and
most up-to-date discovery platform of Israeli innovators and entrepreneurs,
(Start-Up Nation Finder), which provides critical information on more than
5,500 companies across dozens of industries. Think of Start-Up Nation Central
as your gateway to the best solution for you; your personal and professional
guide through the maze of cutting-edge Israeli innovation.
We
design highly customized engagements for business leaders, governments, NGOs,
and academic institutions across the globe, connecting them to the solutions
they need, and delivering Israeli problem-solving innovations that address
their critical and urgent needs. We fuel the innovation engine, convening
thought leaders to help design policies which support it and enabling people
and technologies to grow and develop. Start-Up Nation Central is a
non-profit organization, funded entirely by philanthropy. We have no commercial
agenda – our only goal is to create value, by facilitating great partnerships
that lead to innovative solutions for difficult problems.
Learn more
at http://startupnationcentral.org
Conference Sponsors
Eli Hurvitz Institute of Strategic Management
The Eli Hurvitz Institute of Strategic Management (EHISM)
was established in 2004 to develop cutting edge models in strategic management
for practical application in the global business arena. Part of the Coller
School of Business at Tel Aviv University, EHISM is an internationally
respected thought leader that integrates an academic approach with corporate
pragmatism to inform and disseminate the best practices of today, while
simultaneously shaping the business leaders of tomorrow. The Institute is
designed to support both academics and professionals in meeting the ongoing
challenges in business strategy and management, furnishing managers with the
tools and knowledge necessary to create and sustain a competitive advantage in
their respective business and organizational environments.
Israel Science Foundation
The Israel Science FoundationThe Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
is Israel’s leading organization that provides public support for basic
research in Israel. The ISF was established in 1972 by the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities as the 'Branch for Basic Research'. In 1995 it became
an independent non-profit organization, funded primarily by the Council of
Higher Education (CHE), through its financial arm, namely, the Planning and
Budgeting Committee (PBC or “Vatat”). The ISF's support is provided to a broad
range of research topics within the institutions of higher education, research
institutes and hospitals in Israel, including the exact sciences and
technology, life sciences and medicine, humanities and social sciences.
Its main mission is to promote
Israeli basic research through a “bottom-up” approach initiated by talented,
curiosity-driven individuals, and to nurture entrepreneurship among the
scientific research community. Such initiatives inspire the establishment of a
variety of ISF programs and funding opportunities. All grants awarded by the
ISF are selected on the basis of scientific excellence and vetted through a
competitive peer-review process, involving thousands of scientists in Israel
and abroad every year, who carry out this essential mission on a voluntary
basis. In 2016, the ISF received and reviewed 2,363 proposals from all
scientific disciplines, out of which 831 were selected for funding. The
evaluation process was carried out by 580 committee members, based on 6,692
evaluation letters, obtained from experts, world-wide.
The ISF’s main policy goals are: (I) Cultivating
scientific excellence; (2) significantly increasing support for Israeli
research, through our core and the dedicated programs and (3) ensuring stable
and reasonable success rates of grant funding, for about a third of the
proposals submitted. Essentially all the main ISF activities are directed
towards achieving these three goals.
Conference Supporter
 Administrative Sciences
Are you looking for a professional journal to promote your research? Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free to all readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work on organization studies. Administrative Sciences aims to advance and communicate knowledge concerning management theory and practice both in public administration and in profit organizations; it encourages submissions that build on interdisciplinary research in related fields, such as business, economics, sociology, physiology, communication theory, or artificial intelligence, and their implications for management, organizations, and society. We are waiving the publishing fee for AOM conference attendees. We are currently looking for senior scholars with research interests in entrepreneurship, performance, management, leadership, etc., to organize a committee for the Entrepreneurship Section and the Leadership Section of our journal. If you have a background in these fields and are passionate about open access, contact admsci@mdpi.com. |
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