Start-up Nation (35 page)

9
. James P. DeLoughry, “The United States and the Lavi,”
Airpower Journal
vol. 4, no. 3 (1990), pp. 34–44,
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/3fal90.htm
.

10
. Interview with Yossi Gross, director and cofounder of TransPharma Medical, and founder of many medical-device start-ups, December
2008.

1
. Interview with Doug Wood, head of creative affairs, Animation Lab, May 2008.

2
. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name), December 2008.

3
. Manuel Trajtenberg and Gil Shiff, “Identification and Mobility of Israeli Patenting Inventors,” Discussion Paper No. 5-2008,
Pinchas Sapir Center for Development, Tel Aviv University, April 2008.

4
. John Russell, “Compugen Transforms Its Business,” Bio-ITWorld .com, October 17, 2005,
http://www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2005/oct/bus-compugen?page:int=-1
.

5
. Interview with Ruti Alon, partner, Pitango Venture Capital, and chairperson, boards of BioControl, BrainsGate, and TransPharma
Medical, December 2008.

1
. Interview with Michael Porter, professor of economics, Harvard Business School, March 2009.

2
. Rhoula Khalaf, “Dubai’s Ruler Has Big Ideas for His Little City-State,”
Financial Times
, May 3, 2007.

3
. Michael Matley and Laura Dillon, “Dubai Strategy: Past, Present, Future,” Harvard Business School, February 27, 2007, p. 3.

4
. Quoted in Assaf Gilad, “Silicon Wadi: Who Will Internet Entrepreneurs Turn to in Crisis?”
Cataclist
, September 19, 1998.

5
. Saul Singer, “Superpower in Silicon Wadi,”
Jerusalem Post
, June 19, 1998.

6
. Quoted in Steve Lohr, “Like J. P. Morgan, Warren Buffett Braves a Crisis,”
New York Times
, October 5, 2008.

7
. Quoted in Eyal Marcus, “Israeli Start-ups Impress at TechCrunch50,”
Globes Online
, September 14, 2008.

8
. James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras,
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997),
pp. xix, 224.

9
. Barbara W. Tuchman,
Practicing History: Selected Essays
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), quoted in Collins and Porras,
Built to Last, p. xix.

10
. Interview with Riad al-Allawi, Jordanian entrepreneur, March 2009.

11
. Fadi Ghandour, in Stefan Theil, “Teaching Entrepreneurship in the Arab World,”
Newsweek International
, August 14, 2007; also available at
http://www.gmfus.org/publications/article.cfm?id=332
; retrieved March 2009.

12
. Bernard Lewis, “Free at Last? The Arab World in the Twenty-first Century,”
Foreign Affairs
, March/April 2009. Similar observation has been made by Samuel Huntington.

13
. Quoted in Christopher M. Davidson,
Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 166.

14
.
UNDP
(United Nations Development Programme),
The Arab Human Development Report, 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World
(New York: United Nations Publications, 2006).

15
. Interview with Christopher M. Davidson, author of
Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
, March 2009.

16
. Quoted in Fannie F. Andrews,
The Holy Land Under Mandate
, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1931), p. 4.

17
. Hagit Messer-Yaron,
Capitalism and the Ivory Tower
(Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence Publishing, 2008), p. 82.

18
. America-Israel Friendship League, “Facts About Israel and the U.S.,”
http://www.aifl.org/html/web/resource_facts.html
.

19
. McKinsey & Company, “Perspective on the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region,” July 2008. All of the data
in this section comes from this study.

20
. David Landes,
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
(New York: Norton, 1999), pp. 412–13.

1
. Quoted in Joanna Chen, “The Chosen Stocks Rally,”
Newsweek
, March 14, 2009,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189283
.

2
. Amiram Cohen, “Kibbutz Industries Also Adopt Four-Day Workweek,”
Haaretz
, March 12, 2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070086.html
.

3
. Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, December 2008.

4
. Jennifer Evans, “Best Places to Work for Postdocs 2009,”
The Scientist.com,
vol. 23, no. 3, p. 47,
http://www.the-scientist.com/bptw
.

5
. Interview with Dan Ben-David, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University, June 2008.

6
. Israel’s overall workforce participation level is 55 percent among adults, among the lowest in the West. The overall average
is pulled down mainly by the extremely low workforce-participation levels of two minority groups: ultra-Orthodox Jews (40
percent participation) and Arab women (19 percent participation). These figures are cited in the
Israel 2028
report, which recommends working to raise workforce participation rates of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab women to 55 percent
and 50 percent, respectively, by 2028. U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation,
Israel 2028: Vision and Strategy for Economy and Society in a Global World
, edited by David Brodet (n.p.: U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, March 2008).

7
. Dan Ben-David, “The Moment of Truth,”
Haaretz
, February 6, 2007. Also reprinted with graphs on Dan Ben-David’s Web site:
http://tau.ac.il/~danib/articles/MomentOfTruthEng.htm
.

8
. Helmi Kittani and Hanoch Marmari, “The Glass Wall,” Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, June 15, 2006,
http://www.cjaed.org.il/Index.asp
?ArticleID=269&CategoryID=147&Page=1.

9
. Quoted in Yoav Stern, “Study: Israeli Arab Attitudes Toward Women Undergoing Change,”
Haaretz
, March 14, 2009,
http://www.haaretz .com/hasen/spages/1008797.html
.

10
. U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation,
Israel 2028
, p. 39.

11
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http://reut-institute.org/en/Publication .aspx
?PublicationId=3573.

12
. Thomas Friedman speech at Reut Institute conference, Tel Aviv, June 2008.

1
. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Patent Office, “Compendium of Patent Statistics,”
2008,
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/19/37569377.pdf
.

2
. Interview with Antti Vilpponen, founder, ArcticStartup, January 2009.

3
. Craig L. Pearce, “Follow the Leaders,”
Wall Street Journal/
MIT
Sloan Management Review
, July 7, 2008,
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/business-insight/articles/2008/3/5034/follow-the-leaders
/.

4
. Quoted in Gallup, “Gallup Reveals the Formula for Innovation,” Gallup Management Journal, May 10, 2007,
http://gmj.gallup.com/content/27514/Gallup-Reveals-the-Formula-for-%20Innovation.aspx
.

5
. Dov Frohman and Robert Howard,
Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t be Taught—and How You Can Learn It Anyway
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), p. 7.

6
. Quoted in Ronald Bailey, “Post-Scarcity Prophet: Economist Paul Romer on Growth, Technological Change, and an Unlimited Human
Future,”
Reason Online,
December 2001,
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28243.html
.

7
. Ronald Bailey, “Post-Scarcity Prophet”; and Paul Romer, “Economic Growth,” both in
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
, edited by David R. Henderson (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007),
http://www.stanford.edu/~promer/EconomicGrowth.pdf
.

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.

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.

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.

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.