However, these activities are not the result of higher education policy rather resulting from ad hoc initiatives driven by individual researchers or departments. First, the Technion research covers a large spectrum of engineering fields and does not target specifically the industry segments and specialisations in the Galilee. The second and more important reason is related to the business structure in the Galilee: small business rarely performs R&D activity in the Galilee and larger firms are branch plants or assembly industries. They are more focussed on manufacturing, their research and development is process-oriented and their research labs located in the centre of Israel or on the coastal regions.