by David Rosenberg (Author)
About the Author
David Rosenberg is Business Editor and Commentator for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz. He has reported on Israeli economics and politics for close to three decades for Bloomberg, The Jerusalem Post, and Reuters. He is the author of Cloning Silicon Valley.
About this book
This book documents how Israel emerged as one of the world's leading centers of high technology over the last three decades and the impact that it has had, or failed to have, on the wider economy and politics. Based on the study of start-up companies, the project attributes the rise of Israel's tech economy to its unique history, political system, and culture, and shows how those same factors have failed it in the quest to diversify its economy to make it more inclusive and equitable. This work will interest economists, political scientists, Israeli studies academics, investors, policy makers, journalists, and business readers.
Brief ontents
1 Introduction 1
2 Origins 17
3 Israel as a Knowledge Economy I 37
4 Israel as a Knowledge Economy II 57
5 The Enterprise as Product 81
6 Entrepreneurism 103
7 Human Capital—Tangibles 123
8 Human Capital—Intangibles 143
9 Inequality 165
10 Outsiders I—Israeli Arabs 189
11 Outsiders II—The Ultra-Orthodox 211
12 Conclusions 231
Bibliography 245
Index 269
Series: Middle East in Focus
Length: 275 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (April 8, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3319766538
ISBN-13: 978-3319766539
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