HIL Challenges
Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Innovation
At Haifa Innovation Labs (HIL), we believe that real-world challenges are the starting point for impactful innovation. By working at the intersection of academia, industry, and society, we transform pressing problems into opportunities for creative solutions, applied research, and entrepreneurial ventures.
Do you have a significant challenge? Looking for a new way to solve a problem?
How It Works
Challenge Identification – We partner with challenge owners, organizations from the public, business, and nonprofit sectors to surface significant challenges in health, environment, education, and beyond.
Challenge Cracking – Each challenge is broken down into its core components, allowing us to reframe the problem, uncover hidden opportunities, and open new directions for solution design.
Co-Creation Process – Through structured workshops, design-thinking methods, and applied research, we engage students, researchers, and industry professionals in generating new ideas.
From Idea to Impact – Promising concepts are developed into prototypes, pilots, and ventures through our incubators, accelerators, and innovation programs.
Why Challenges?
By starting with challenges rather than solutions, we ensure that innovation is demand-driven, relevant, and impactful. This approach not only strengthens collaboration between academia and industry but also contributes to solving critical issues at local, national, and global levels.
Impact
Our challenge-driven innovation (CDI) model has already led to:
New startups and ventures in fields such as health tech, blue economy, and social innovation.
Applied research projects addressing real community and environmental needs.
Strong partnerships that connect students, alumni, researchers, corporations, and policymakers.
At HIL, challenges are not obstacles, they are gateways to innovation and change.
