By Yaacov Benmeleh
Bloomberg - May 29, 2014
Attendees at a technology conference in Tel Aviv last week took home
mock boarding passes to Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Those are among
the stops on a 10-day roadshow across China in November, where the
Israeli government plans to showcase the country's life-sciences
companies.
The gimmick highlighted Israel's expanded focus on
trade, particularly in technology, with the world's most populous
country. Some 350 Chinese businessmen and government officials convened
at the event to meet with Israeli tech entrepreneurs and scientists.
"Israel
is going east," Nafatli Bennett, the country's economy minister, said
at the conference on May 22. "We are shifting our economic resources to
Bangalore, Africa and China, China, China."
That shift is also
taking place in the country's academic circles. Tel Aviv University
announced last week that it's teaming up with Tsinghua University in
Beijing to establish the XIN Center for research into areas like
nanotechnology.
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