BIRD Foundation Building U.S.-Israel Innovation Partnerships www.birdf.com 1 May 12, 2017
BIRD Foundation BIRD = Binational Industrial Research and Development Joint fund, established in 1977 as a joint initiative between the US and Israeli governments Mission Funding To stimulate, promote and Income from interest earned support joint (non-defense) on $110 million industrial R&D of endowment grant and from mutual benefit to repayments from successful Israel and the United States BIRD projects 2 May 12, 2017 Flags by : www.webdesignhot.com
BIRD’s Board of Governors* The Foundation’s Board of Governors (BOG) consists of six members: three representatives of the U.S. and three representatives of Israel Israeli Representatives U.S. Representatives Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Assistant Secretary for S&T, Dept. of Commerce Industry Permanent Designee: Associate Director for (Israeli co-Chairman) Innovation and Industry Services, NIST (U.S. co-Chairman) Director General, Ministry of Economy and Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Industry Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Dept. of State Director General, Ministry of Finance Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Dept. of Treasury (or their designees) (or their designees) *Source: Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Agreement, March 3, 1976 3 May 12, 2017
BIRD – Performance Summary 2006-2016* $339M granted 948 projects approved $105M repayments from projects ~$10B in sales generated directly and indirectly by BIRD sponsored activities *including BIRD Energy & BIRD HLS/First Responders 4 May 12, 2017
The BIRD Model Conditional Grant Risk Sharing Up to $ ½ (X) Budget $ X Israeli Company Proposal BIRD $ (X+Y) Proposer Repayments from 100% up to 150% Budget Of Grant upon $ Y commercialization U.S. Company Conditional Grant Risk Sharing Up to $ ½ (Y) 5 May 12, 2017
Submitting Process (two cycles per year) * Cycle I Cycle II Executive Summaries March September Final Proposal April October Proposal Evaluation Evaluators appointed by NIST & the Chief Scientist’s Office Decisions June December At the Board of Governors’ Meeting * For the exact dates of the upcoming cycle see www.birdf.com 6 May 12, 2017
Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summaries (using BIRD's template) – September 7, 2017 Full Proposals (following BIRD's detailed instructions) – October 17, 2017 Decisions – December 2017 7 May 12, 2017
BIRD Energy Call for Proposals Timetable & Deadlines: Executive Summary July 6, 2017 B11090 “BIRD Energy” follows the same rules and procedures as BIRD. Final Proposal Please refer to BIRD’s website for submission details - www.birdf.com August 21, 2017 To be considered, a project proposal should include: • R&D cooperation between two companies or cooperation between a company and a Decisions university/research institution (one from the U.S. and one from Israel). • Innovation in all areas of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, such as Solar October 2017 and Wind Power, Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Alternative Fuels, Smart Grid, Water-Energy Nexus, Advanced Manufacturing, etc. • Significant commercial potential; the project outcome should lead to commercialization. The maximum conditional grant is $1M per project Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summary - July 6, 2017 Final Proposal - August 21, 2017 Decisions - October 25, 2017 8
NexGen First Responder Technologies Program Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summaries (using BIRD's template) – February 15, 2017 Full Proposals (following BIRD's detailed instructions) – April 5, 2017 Decisions – June 2017 November 2016 9
What are we looking for? Innovation Synergy Commercial potential Proven ability to market & distribute 10 May 12, 2017
Examples of BIRD Projects Each project involves a U.S. company and an Israeli company, performing joint R&D for mutual business benefit. 11 May 12, 2017 Flags by : www.webdesignhot.com
Locating and Monitoring Project title: Indoor Positioning, Locating and SayVU Technologies develops a premier Reporting System. emergency and alert system including multi- control centers and networks of reporters for real time events, in an era of escalating safety and terror challenges. Opto-Knowledge Systems (OKSI) is a high-tech R&D company specializing in Joint development product: developing solutions in areas of remote Solution that uses smartphone platforms and other sensing, electro-optical sensors, algorithm wearable sensors to provide 3D location, physiological development for sensor data analysis and status, local hazards indicators, etc exploitation, and others applications. 12 November 2016
Mobile Healthcare Project title: Advanced cervical cancer analysis in MobileODT is a biomedical optics remote areas company that enables cancer detection using any digital camera. Its first product is the mobile colposcope, the world’s first connected-health gynecological screening device Dimagi delivers open and innovative mobile Joint development product: Comprehensive solution to health care providers in technologies in the fields of health and screening and detecting cervical cancer in low- education to underserved communities. Its resource settings. Caregivers will capture patient data CommCare platform is the most widely used, along with cervical imaging with a mobile phone and evidence-based mobile platform for community data will be aggregated to track and improve health programs in resource-poor settings. operations and the accuracy of diagnoses. 13 November 2016
Thank You! Andrea Yonah East Coast/Midwest Representative BIRD Foundation andreay@birdf.com www.birdf.com www.facebook.com/BIRDFoundation 14 14 May 12, 2017
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