Top Highlights

• more Israeli companies are listed on the NASDAQ exchange than all companies from the entire European continent.
• In 2008, per capita venture capital investments in Israel were 2.5 times greater than in the United States, more than 30 times greater than in Europe, 80 times greater than in China, and 350 times greater than in India.
• Proportionately, more Israelis died in the war for Israel’s establishment than Americans in both world wars combined.
• it is a story not just of talent but of tenacity, of insatiable questioning of authority, of determined informality, combined with a unique attitude toward failure, teamwork, mission, risk, and cross-disciplinary creativity.
• According to the pioneering work of Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow, technological innovation is the ultimate source of productivity and growth.