The Technion promotes ‘entrepreneurial thinking’ as a key and essential component in the toolbox of Israel’s science and engineering graduates. This thinking includes new skills, extensive knowledge and understanding, a systemic approach, and personal skills that are not part of the traditional scientific and technological training, but are today key to the integration and success of graduates in academia, industry and technological entrepreneurship.
t-hub, the Technion’s new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, is leading a significant and substantial move to deepen the education for entrepreneurial thinking and behavior, and to create the best possible space to experiment and create scientific and technological entrepreneurship for students and Technion researchers in particular, and other target audiences in general.
The Center assists entrepreneurs in fostering and integrating entrepreneurial elements in interpersonal, social and business practices, and in addition promotes a conceptual and cultural change in the mindset of Technion audiences. A change in the mindset to one that embraces collaboration and collaborative activities, cross-disciplinary activities, exposing students and academic staff to advanced teamwork skills, and creating common language and interdisciplinary thinking. All this while leveraging the entrepreneurial activity within the various faculties and centers of excellence in the Technion and connecting it to the Entrepreneurship Center through bridges, upgrading crucial infrastructures, and raising awareness of students and researchers to existing and new entrepreneurial activities.
t-hub offers: (1) practical training and a combination of tools for entrepreneurial and creative thinking and behavior, alongside technological and scientific ones, to solve real engineering, technological and scientific challenges in everyday life. (2) Access to technological and scientific infrastructure and development tools, for researchers and students in all faculties on campus, and the operation of makers’ areas designated for the development of prototypes and work in interdisciplinary teams. (3) Exposure and integration of advanced design methods, design thinking, project management methods, and familiarity with the world of patents and economic aspects of entrepreneurship. (4) Empowering entrepreneurial culture across campus through entrepreneurial and multidisciplinary final projects, hackathons, international collaborative programs and many other activities.
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center is an all-Technion knowledge hub, fostering and incorporating values of entrepreneurship and creativity into campus culture, curricula, and into the implementation and commercialization of research results at the Technion. The Center exposes Technion audiences, academia and industry, to the forefront of entrepreneurship and innovation in Israel and around the world, and serves as a platform for presenting best practices in these areas.
