Last thursday saw the opening of BizTEC 2018: Israel’s leading technological entrepreneurship program of the Technion.
Technion President, Prof. Peretz Lavie; Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development Prof. Boaz Golani; and Founder of the Ormat group Yehuda Bronicki spoke at the opening ceremony. Together with his wife, Yehuda Bronicki is a key visionary and supporter behind the establishment of the Bronica Entrepreneurship Center at Technion. Bronicki is also a recipient of the 2018 Israel Prize for Industry.
This year, 26 groups were selected out of 120. The program includes prizes of approximately NIS 300,000 and special grants for projects that include the development of hardware. The evening included a panel moderated by Dov Moran, the inventor of the USB drive, in which BizTEC alumni described the value of the process.