Israel

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.

9 books

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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

Books 9

Dan Breznitz · 2007 · Compares Israel, Taiwan and Ireland; the serious analysis behind Start-Up Nation.
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 2009 · The standard explanation of the technology cluster and its military roots.
Paul Rivlin · 2010 · The wider economy: labour markets, defence spending, inflation and stabilisation.
Seth M. Siegel · 2015 · Water technology as an export industry built from a domestic constraint.
Daniel Gordis · 2016 · The political history behind the state's economic choices.
Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot · 2017 · How military procurement feeds the commercial technology pipeline.
David Rosenberg · 2018 · The sceptical case: the tech sector is an enclave, not an economy.
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 2023 · The sequel, on the social factors the authors think sustain it.
Avi Jorisch · 2018 · Case studies of Israeli technologies and how they were commercialised.