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Sunday 22.2.2004, 16:45-19:00 |
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Taub Building Auditorium 1, Technion |
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Prof. Uri Sivan, Technion |
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Mr. Nir Belzer, MMT Funds |
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Dr. Fernando de la Vega, NanoPowders Industries |
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Creating Nanotechnology Businesses |
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 Prof. Uri Sivan
Prof. Uri Sivan joined the Technion staff in 1990 after completing a post-doctorate and visiting scientist term at IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center in the United States. He was a recipient of the Chaim Weizmann Fellowship, and the Bergmann Prize from the Israeli Academy of Sciences.
Uri has recently launched a project which harnesses biotechnology to the fabrication of molecular scale electronics. He is one of the leading scientists in the Technion effort in the field of Nanotechnology.
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Mr. Nir Belzer
Mr. Nir Belzer is one of the founders of the Millennium Funds. He had previously served as the Business Development Manager at IDBH, one of the largest Holdings companies in Israel (AKA Clal). On this role, Nir represented IDBH on the board of six VC funds in which IDBH has invested, and was responsible for promoting investments in start-up companies and monitoring their progress.
Mr. Belzer holds an MBA from the School of Business Administration at Tel-Aviv University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computers from Tel-Aviv University.
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Dr. Fenando de la Vega
Dr. de la Vega is the founder and CEO of NanoPowders, which manufactures and markets metal nanopowder based products for a wide array of industries such as Conductive Inks, transparent conductive coatings, thermal management, energetics, and medical applications (implants).
Fernando completed his PhD in Applied Chemistry at the Casaly Institute at Jerusalem University in 1990. He has a broad range of experience in R&D, Production and Quality Assurance and Control. Prior to joining Cima, Dr. de la Vega was Vice President of Operations for Tosaf, a leading company producing raw materials for the chemical and plastics industry.
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Summary of the meeting:
"Nano is NOT technology made smaller," said Prof. Uri Sivan to the 200 Forum members. "It concerns the conceptual question of how to create tiny yet complex products." Lowering the dimension does not only make things faster and cheaper, it also enables a whole new world of technological and physical capabilities.
"From the industry's point of view," said Dr. Fernando de la Vega, "it is not enough that we create new nano materials. We have to show our customers how they can benefit from using them." With this vision NanoPowders, under the lead of Dr. de la Vega is now producing conductive ink, allowing quick and accurate printing of electric circuits.
"Investors seek to invest in marketable nano products," explained Mr. Nir Belzer, when discussing nano industry. "Most nano applications surrounding us today are based on nano materials, used in microelectronics and life-sciences, medicine and cosmetics." Belzer claimed that in order for the nano-based industry to pick up, governmental funds must be allocated. However, in opposition to current national efforts, he maintained that Israel must follow the US concept and direct these funds to academic research rather than to the VC arena.
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