Israel 21c reports that 17 engineering and business majors from the University of Minnesota will visit Israel as part Keshet's Israel-Jordan Global Seminar. The Misgav Venture Accelerator will be one of the places they visit.

 

Minnesota university students are coming to Israel to investigate what makes its startup and high-tech communities tick.

Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel 21c (April 22, 2012)

 

"Seventeen engineering and business majors from the University of Minnesota are coming to Israel with their professor for Keshet’s Israel-Jordan Global Seminar.

 

"Arriving on May 13, Prof. Marvin Marshak and his class will meet with Saul Singer, co-author of Start-Up Nation The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle ... talk to Gemini Israel Funds Founding Partner Ed Mlavsky; find out about revolutionary gaming technology from PrimeSense; investigate the electricity-generating wastewater treatment pioneered by Emefcy ... and examine the 'pillcam' diagnostic capsule from Given Imaging."

 

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"Among the other planned stops with a Keshet guide are the Israel Water Authority’s central filtration plant — one of the most sophisticated of its kind in the world — and Naharayim Hydroelectric Plant, one of the more tangible symbols of the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty; the biological pest control experts at Sde Eliyahu’s Bio-Bee; the PresenTense social enterpreneurship community; and Oramed Pharmaceuticals; as well as Trendlines’ Misgav Venture Center’s incubator for life science startups."