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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Making-friends-worldwide-the-Technion-way-450500
Making Friends Worldwide - the Technion Way
(Jerusalem Post) Boaz Golany - Scientific research nowadays is based on international collaboration and no university, no matter how strong it is, can continue to push the frontiers of science on its own without a worldwide network of collaborations with other leading academic institutions. Rather than confront the BDSers in platforms of their choice and play the game according to rules they are trying to dictate, we have developed a proactive globalization policy that seeks to build bridges of goodwill and mutual benefit that serve as solid proof of the fallacy and distortion in the BDS arguments. In less than a decade, we have signed more than 200 agreements with leading academic and research institutions as well as research divisions in large multinational corporations worldwide. Recently a business delegation led by the French Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs minister, Emmanuel Macron, visited us in Haifa for the signing of an agreement between Ecole Polytechnique and the Technion to further promote the cooperation between the startup accelerators of both institutions. They and many others come here because they see the added value that serves their own objectives. It isn't Zionism or a sudden attraction to the Holy Land. It's just good business. The writer is vice president for external relations of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.