Jonathan Tudor, director of Centrica Innovations, was in Israel for the GCV Israel conference, Israel’s first corporate venturing conference, and to launch a £100m Centrica Innovations fund

The late Israeli president Shimon Peres once said: “In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage – our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.” Even at an advanced age, President Peres was one of the great global supporters of finding new solutions to the way we live, work and move.

Every day, new innovations are sought and discovered…