From auto to health where Ford and GM get together
There are things that only can happen in America. A city of cars turn into a city of innovation and life science.
This is a vision we in Israel can relate to After all we have turned deserts into farms , Kibutz and towns and later even back into concrete desserts.
It is hard to understand how big the auto business of Detroit is in Israeli terms.
This city that nature gave the gift of green land probably has been the center of car making and thus the center of Road Making America for many decades.
And now the city want change and a change that not only bring it back the nature's beauty but also sustain and keep it a leading edge in America's economy.
It is only healthy that health biotech and environmental CleanTech and water take a key in this effort. And only right that the automakers take part. But this is not aid type of help but rather pure business building.
TechTown of Detroit is probably the most courageous and most far reaching local enterprise to drive a community's economy I have seen so far. And its doing it by promoting self enterprise. Coming from a community in Israel where every person and the next door neighbor consider them self the next big thing ("A STARtUP) its not obvious to us how in America where getting a job, a driver's license and a postal address mean the right to live, it is hard to move people to enterprise and funding (and finding) their own call in starting one's own business.
And the goals are enormous in numbers – hundreds of them in few years.
Such a drive needs an engine – and being backed by local academics is a plus but Ford and GM can and should be part of the mechanics and they are. techTown comes on their old machine-shops and with their back-wind.
We met TechTown as a group that is interested to promote life science in Haifa using a vehicle of promoting integration, or in Techtown's words soft landing.
We share the vision of what it takes for foreign company to immigrate to other geography culture and business. We both are experimenters in company immigration, rather then spreading we see tech company building a center be it a business center or R&D center, it is immigration rather then budding. I follow this bigger and most courageous experiment in amaze and in joy to see it grow.
You can too: http://www.techtownwsu.org/
There are things that only can happen in America. A city of cars turn into a city of innovation and life science.
This is a vision we in Israel can relate to After all we have turned deserts into farms , Kibutz and towns and later even back into concrete desserts.
It is hard to understand how big the auto business of Detroit is in Israeli terms.
This city that nature gave the gift of green land probably has been the center of car making and thus the center of Road Making America for many decades.
And now the city want change and a change that not only bring it back the nature's beauty but also sustain and keep it a leading edge in America's economy.
It is only healthy that health biotech and environmental CleanTech and water take a key in this effort. And only right that the automakers take part. But this is not aid type of help but rather pure business building.
TechTown of Detroit is probably the most courageous and most far reaching local enterprise to drive a community's economy I have seen so far. And its doing it by promoting self enterprise. Coming from a community in Israel where every person and the next door neighbor consider them self the next big thing ("A STARtUP) its not obvious to us how in America where getting a job, a driver's license and a postal address mean the right to live, it is hard to move people to enterprise and funding (and finding) their own call in starting one's own business.
And the goals are enormous in numbers – hundreds of them in few years.
Such a drive needs an engine – and being backed by local academics is a plus but Ford and GM can and should be part of the mechanics and they are. techTown comes on their old machine-shops and with their back-wind.
We met TechTown as a group that is interested to promote life science in Haifa using a vehicle of promoting integration, or in Techtown's words soft landing.
We share the vision of what it takes for foreign company to immigrate to other geography culture and business. We both are experimenters in company immigration, rather then spreading we see tech company building a center be it a business center or R&D center, it is immigration rather then budding. I follow this bigger and most courageous experiment in amaze and in joy to see it grow.
You can too: http://www.techtownwsu.org/
