{"id":279219,"date":"2026-06-23T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:15:13","slug":"israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Expert: Azerbaijan Poised to Become Gateway for Israeli Technology in Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/interview\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia\">Israeli Expert: Azerbaijan Poised to Become Gateway for Israeli Technology in Central Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/interview\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia\">https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/interview\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 04:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"caspianpost.com\">caspianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerusalem has emerged as one of Israel&#8217;s leading innovation hubs, successfully connecting universities, startups, investors and public institutions into a single ecosystem. At the center of this effort are organizations dedicated to fostering cooperation, promoting entrepreneurship and strengthening the city&#8217;s global innovation profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Caspian Post, <strong>Michael Mizrahi, a leading expert in academic-industry cooperation and structural innovation ecosystems in Jerusalem<\/strong>, spoke about the mechanisms behind the city&#8217;s innovation success, opportunities for expanding Azerbaijan-Israel cooperation, and the potential role of Azerbaijan as a regional technology hub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Mr. Mizrahi, Jerusalem has successfully connected universities, startups, investors and government institutions. Which specific mechanism has been the most effective in creating this collaboration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; One of the most successful mechanisms has been the creation of a central umbrella organization called Made in Jerusalem, which brings together the city&#8217;s innovation ecosystem under a single framework.<\/p>\n<p>Its work is based on three key principles: collecting, connecting and branding.<\/p>\n<p>The first step was collecting information about the ecosystem. Before building collaboration, you need to know who the players are. The organization mapped startups, incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces, universities, investors and other innovation stakeholders operating in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The second step was connecting these actors. Once the ecosystem was mapped, sector-focused communities and events were established in areas such as cybersecurity, gaming and health technologies. These platforms created opportunities for entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and public institutions to interact and collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The third pillar was branding. Jerusalem wanted to position itself as a global innovation center. A comprehensive public awareness and marketing campaign was launched to raise the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/interview\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Expert: Azerbaijan Poised to Become Gateway for Israeli Technology in Central Asia https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/interview\/israeli-expert-azerbaijan-poised-to-become-gateway-for-israeli-technology-in-central-asia Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/storage\/photos\/thumbs\/aspect\/w4NqKLSFLLfBBh4yD97OuPbFG6Yu6nGxWLTaChLV.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,62],"class_list":["post-279219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279221,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279219\/revisions\/279221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}