New Israel-North Carolina Agreement

Israel and North Carolina signed a technology cooperation agreement in which the Israel Center for Industrial R&D and the North Carolina Technology and Science Authority will set up a joint framework for fast Internet data transmission, GLOBES reported (4/9/98). This will include databases of high-tech companies in the two states and technological business cooperation opportunities. Seminars and meetings on cooperation will be held in North Carolina and Israel during the next two years, the first of which will occur during the Telecom '98 Exhibition in Tel Aviv this November.