Israel's Technology Economy Origins and Impact /

• Main Author: Rosenberg, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Middle East in Focus
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Middle East-Economic conditions.; Economic development.; Social change.; Development economics.; Middle Eastern Politics.; International Political Economy.; Middle Eastern and North African Economics.; Development and Social Change.; Development Economics.

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&#...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Origins
• 3: Israel as a Knowledge Economy I
• 4: Israel as a Knowledge Economy II
• 5: The Enterprise as Product
• 6: Entrepreneurism
• 7: Human Capital - Tangibles
• 8: Human Capital - Intangibles
• 9: Inequality
• 10: Outsiders I - Israeli Arabs
• 11: Outsiders II - The Ultra-Orthodox
• 12: Conclusions.