The College of Charleston is spearheading its first interdisciplinary study abroad initiative in Israel with its inauguration scheduled for Fall 2012. Select Fall courses on Israeli culture and an independent study in business course lead up to taking these College of Charleston students to Israel during the 2012 winter break. Jonathan Zucker, CEO of the [...]

AICC Credited with Introduction to MUSC Rehovot-based IDEA Bio-Medical and Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) announced that they have completed the sale of IDEA Bio’s Hermes WiScan® system to MUSC’s Center for Drug Discovery.  “This sale marks IDEA Bio-Medical’s official entry into the US market,” said Ilan Friedman, Manager of Global Sales and [...]

Boeing presents at January 31st seminar Sixty participants from 32 South Carolina companies learned about selling to Israel’s Ministry of Defense at the January 31st seminar at SCRA in Charleston.  Organized by the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, SE Region, the event featured a briefing by the Ministry’s procurement team based at their New York mission [...]

Panelists: Israel’s Innovation Success Serves as Model for S.C.

February 5, 2012

By Liz Segrist, Charleston Regional Business February 2, 2012 South Carolina could learn a lesson from Israel’s funding model that supports innovation and entrepreneurship and earned it the nickname “The Start-Up Nation.” “Israel’s key export is knowledge,” said Jonathan Zucker, president of Charleston-based The InterTech Group. “A country the size of Rhode Island has a [...]

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Israel21c: South Carolina woos Israeli innovation

January 13, 2012

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GSA Business: BMW to build new model at S.C. plant

January 13, 2012

BMW said Thursday it plans to hire 300 people in 2012 and up to 700 more by 2014 as it adds production of a new X4 sports activity vehicle at its Spartanburg County plant. It also plans to invest $900 million to prepare the facility for production of the new model over the next two [...]

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SmartState Speaker Says Innovation, Partnerships Aid Economic Growth

December 23, 2011

By Matt Tomsic, Charleston Regional Business Journal Dec. 6, 2011 Countries and businesses need to focus on innovation to increase production and should collaborate with each other to capitalize on individual strengths, a best-selling business author said Monday.   Singer Saul Singer, co-author of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, spoke at the SmartState [...]

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USC Upstate announces partnership with Israeli college

December 3, 2011

Zvi Arad, Ph.D., founder and president of Netanya Academic College in Israel and founder of internationally known Gelbart Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, as well as The Emmy Noether Mathematics Institute, both at Bar-Ilan University, recently visited University of South Carolina Upstate campus to personally invite students to participate in the Maymester 2012 Study Abroad [...]

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