By Karin Kloosterman

Think of the volume of traffic on the 401 or the 404, or all the energy of taxi cabs and cars on the streets of Toronto. It’s just going to waste. But hopefully not for long: an Israeli company Innowattech has found a way to take the mechanical energy created by cars to [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

I’ve written about CIIRDF before here and here: the strongest link for industrial cooperation between Israel and Canada. Created 10 years between both countries, the Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) promotes industrial R&D between Israel and Canada.
Investing domestically, the organization helps Canadian companies find partners in Israel, and with joint [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Left, right and centre –– everywhere I look these days, the media is in a frenzy over Shai Agassi, the Israeli with the dream to electrify the car business through his Palo Alto business Better Place. America is plugging into the idea, and has declared that the states of California and Hawaii will [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Well the title of this post is kind of misleading. Sort of.
This is a story about Shari Arison, the billionaire heiress of Carnival Cruiselines. With a reported $5.5 billion in assets (according to Forbes), Arison is the richest woman in the Middle East. Owner of one of Israel’s banks, Arison is hard to [...]

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by Karin Kloosterman

Known for its biotech advances, high-tech, clean technologies, and superb agricultural research, Israel is becoming a country that Canadian business developers can’t ignore. A couple of years ago I had the joy of meeting a bunch of Newfoundlanders in Israel hoping to partner with Israeli companies for R&D in the area of water [...]

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