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Time: |
Sunday 19.5.2002, 15:00 |
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Taub Building room 337-8, Technion |
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Speaker: |
Mr. Dan Vllenski |
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Subject: |
Academia and Industry - Collaborators or Competitors ? |
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 Mr. Dan Vilenski
Dan Vilenski serves as the chairman of Applied Materials Israel, which he joined as a Corporate VP in 1997. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Dan Vilenski was the Executive Director of the BIRD (Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development) Foundation for over 5 years.
From 1985 to 1992, Dan Vilenski served as the Vice President and General Manager of KLA.
Prior to that, Dan Vilenski made his way from design engineer to a vice president position at Kulicke & Soffa (K&S).
Dan Vilenski was a staff member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 1967 to 1969.
Dan Vilenski holds an M.Sc.ME and a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion.
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Summary of the meeting:
We had the honor of having Mr. Dan Vilenski as our guest speaker. Mr. Vilenski discussed several models that might improve the cooperation between academia and industry. The contradicting objectives between the two were in the core of the discussion. Academia's main objectives are to educate and train Scientists and Engineers, create new and significant scientific advancements through basic research and to be the source of knowledge and innovation for the Israeli industry. From the industry's point of view, academia can be a `golden egg' for new technology and products. Unfortunately the cooperation between the two groups is poor. Academia and industry can have greater benefit from the cooperation than risks involved.
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