About Us

The Israel Innovation Institute focuses on issues with the most public impact and advances those issues through a unique methodology of building innovation communities and open innovation programs.

The Institute supports entrepreneurs and startups with finding resources, making connections, and exchanging knowledge with industry players. The Institute also initiates open innovation processes in organizations based on identifying challenges and needs and matching to the most relevant solutions. In addition, the Institute accompanies and supports international organizations that join the Israeli innovation ecosystem.

We work in collaboration with entrepreneurs, corporate entities, academia, investors, governmental offices, policy makers, municipalities, NGO’s and service providers.

This allows organizations to accelerate open innovation processes using designated tools and adapt them to real needs.In this framework, the Institute operates three innovation communities in collaboration with the Israeli government: HealthIL – A digital health community promoting the development and implementation of innovative solutions in health systems. EcoMotion – The biggest international community for Smart Mobility, GrowingIL – An Ag-tech community dealing with global food challenges while promoting innovative Israeli agri-technologies, in collaboration with Startup Nation Central.

In 2018, the Institute founded CatalystIL – a professional community for innovation management. This community supports open innovation activities of all the communities in the Institute and offers dedicated workshops and training to develop innovation within organizations.

In 2020 two new communities joined the Institute: – DeserTech Located in the Negev desert, which promotes the development of technologies dealing with desert-related challenges on a global level, and in collaboration with the Mirage Foundation Israel.
PLANETech, which promotes the development and implementation of technologies that create both economic and environmental value, with both local and global partners.

Target Audiences

Entrepreneurs, startup companies, corporate entities, academic institutions, investors, governmental offices, policymakers, municipalities, NGO’s and service providers

Opportunities we bring to successful collaborations

• Tailored events to address the needs and challenges of ecosystem stakeholders, including hands-on workshops for startups, targeted B2B events for organizations to explore solutions to their needs, meetups to share unique business opportunities and to allow relevant networking, challenge competitions for an end-to-end open innovation process and much more!
• Exclusive investors events and exposure of leading technologies
• Presenting the ecosystem with the needs of big organizations, best practices, and future global trends
• We continuously support innovation leaders within organizations, as well as management, in an end-to-end open innovation processes from conceptualizing to implementation
• Design open innovation strategy including support in identification of organizational needs and challenges
• Apply proven innovation integration processes and support organizations in
•  implementing outside
• technologies
• Train and accompany innovation managers and innovation enablers in their daily job
• Perform where needed scouting processes of innovative technologies and support organizations in the evaluation process
• Create a platform to pilot Israeli technologies by applying our structured framework for successful POCs