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Benefits of Collaboration

Fostering Canadian-Israeli Partnerships

Companies worldwide are engaged in a growing array of strategic alliances in order to acquire the technological capacity to maintain competitive advantage. In this context, there is much untapped potential for Canada-Israel collaboration.

Why Israel and Canada?
Israel and Canada both have recognized strengths in areas such as photonics, wireless, nanotechnologies, life sciences and advanced materials. In addition, consider the following:

Israel has become an international hub of technology flow by establishing foundations similar to CIIRDF with a growing number of countries in Europe, with India, and in the Pacific Rim;
Israel’s investment in R&D has consistently been among the highest in the world (approximately 3% of GDP);
Israel has over 3,000 technology-based companies;
Canada has low business and after-tax R&D costs, progressive social policies and a strong economy;
Canada has a world-class communication infrastructure and ready supply of highly skilled workers.

We invite you to review the descriptions of some of the joint R&D projects funded by CIIRDF to date.