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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
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Israel

Middle East and Africa

A small domestic market with an outsized technology export sector fed by military R&D and exits to US acquirers; most of the literature is about that pipeline rather than the wider economy.

Books 9Recommenders 1

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  1. Start-Up NationDan Senor, Saul Singer, 2009
  2. Israel's Technology EconomyDavid Rosenberg, 2018
  3. Innovation and the StateDan Breznitz, 2007
Innovation and the StateInnovation and the State
T2 Innovation and the State
Dan Breznitz · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Israel, Taiwan and Ireland each used the state to build IT industries.

Start-Up NationStart-Up Nation
T2 Start-Up Nation
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why Israel produces so many tech start-ups, from military service to immigration.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of tThe Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century
T3 The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century
Paul Rivlin · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The wider economy: labour markets, defence spending, inflation and stabilisation.

Let There Be WaterLet There Be Water
T3 Let There Be Water
Seth M. Siegel · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Water technology as an export industry built from a domestic constraint.

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation RebornIsrael: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
T3 Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Israel's political history and the choices behind its economy.

The Weapon WizardsThe Weapon Wizards
T3 The Weapon Wizards
Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Israel's military tech, from drones to cyber, feeds its commercial industry.

Israel's Technology EconomyIsrael's Technology Economy
T3 Israel's Technology Economy
David Rosenberg · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

The sceptical case: the tech sector is an enclave, not an economy.

The Genius of IsraelThe Genius of Israel
T3 The Genius of Israel
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

The social traits that the authors argue sustain Israel's success.

Thou Shalt InnovateThou Shalt Innovate
T4 Thou Shalt Innovate
Avi Jorisch · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Case studies of Israeli technologies and how they were commercialised.

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