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Warren Buffett...
We believe generally in the United States, we believe in ourselves and what a young country can achieve. Israel, since 1948, now a major factor in commerce and in the world. It's a smaller replica of what has been accomplished here and I think Americans admire that. They feel good about societies that are on the move.
Warren Buffet Supports the U.S.-Israel Relationship - YouTube
Israel, despite being the 100th smallest country in the world, which can fit into Europe 459 times, has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after America.
It also has highest number of high-tech start ups, estimated to be 3,500, ranging from internet companies to software solutions, outside of the US.
...many technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Intel, choose to have their major research and development (R and D) centres inside this small state.
This prowess in technology has resulted in leaders and high profile figures from around the world to make regular visits to the small embattled state to see the start up nation in action. Earlier this month for instance, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Michael Bear, flew into Israel to promote the UK's capital as the best place for IsraeliÂ’s to list their companies and to find out about opportunities for UK based fund managers to invest in Israeli technology businesses.
Israel: The start up nation taking on Silicon Valley - Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph: Israel The Start Up Nation Taking On Silicon Valley. Israel's strong technology start up scene has correctly earned the tiny state its growing reputation as the world's second Silicon Valley
Israel, despite being the 100th smallest country in the world, which can fit into Europe 459 times, has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after America.
It also has highest number of high-tech start ups, estimated to be 3,500, ranging from internet companies to software solutions, outside of the US.
...many technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Intel, choose to have their major research and development (R and D) centres inside this small state.
This prowess in technology has resulted in leaders and high profile figures from around the world to make regular visits to the small embattled state to see the start up nation in action. Earlier this month for instance, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Michael Bear, flew into Israel to promote the UK's capital as the best place for IsraeliÂ’s to list their companies and to find out about opportunities for UK based fund managers to invest in Israeli technology businesses.
Israel: The start up nation taking on Silicon Valley - Telegraph
Israel is a country of just 7.1 million people that may well be the worldÂ’s top techno-nation
The country boasts the highest density of start-up companies in the world, with a total of 3,850 now operating at a rate of one for every 1,844 Israelis. In 2008, the nation attracted more than $2 billion in venture capital in 2008, as much as flowed to the U.K.Â’s 61 million citizens or the 145 million people living in Germany and France combined. And for that matter, some 63 Israeli companies were listed on the Nasdaq in 2009, more than from any other foreign country, including Canada, Ireland, the U.K., Singapore, China, or India. Nor have the wars Israel has repeatedly fought slowed the country down. Since 1995, IsraelÂ’s broader economy has grown faster than the average for the worldÂ’s developed economies. During this decade, the IsraelÂ’s share of the global venture capital market did not decline--it doubled, from 15 to 30 percent.
No nation spends more on R&D as a percentage of the economy.Tend to innovation and human capital inputs, the Israel story seems to say. Foster a culture of tolerance, practical problem-solving and active debate. And by all means seek in discrete, confined regions to construct and foster rich, complex, hyper-networked clusters of interconnected institutions, driven people, of common interest. It is to the latter work of cluster building that we hope the House-Senate conference committee on the pending Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriation bill will soon attend by funding a truly valuable federal innovation clusters initiative. Dynamic regions must lead, but the federal government can nudge
Innovation Nation: Israel | The New Republic
Israel, a New Jersey-sized nation of 7.5 million people (1.7 million of whom are Arab) filed 7,082 international patents in the five years ending in 2007. By contrast, 28 majority-Muslim nations with almost 1.2 billion people — 155 times the population of Israel — were granted 2,071 patents in the same period. Narrowing the comparison to the 17 Muslim nations of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran and down the Arabian Peninsula, the 409 million people in that region generated 680 patents in five years.
This means that the Arab and Iranian world produced about one patent per year for every 3 million people, compared with Israel's output of one annual patent for every 5,295 people, an Israeli rate some 568 times that of Israel's neighbors and sometime enemies.
The awarding of Nobel Prizes in the quantitative areas of chemistry, economics and physics shows a similar disparity, with five Israeli winners compared with one French Algerian (a Jew who earned the prize for work done in France) and an Egyptian-American (for work done at Caltech in California).
The telltale signs of Israel's economic rise can be seen in the Tel Aviv skyline and the new office complexes around Jerusalem. International giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. was founded in 1901 by three pharmacists in Jerusalem. Today it employs 40,000 around the world.
Teva has a market cap of $44.2 billion — the most highly valued company based in Israel and the ninth-largest firm traded on the Nasdaq
Less than 300 miles separate the purposeful creative buzz in the JVP Media Quarter from the restive streets of Cairo, where the Muslim Brotherhood tells Egypt's unemployed that their plight is the fault of corrupt capitalists and Jews. It doesn't take a Nobel Prize-winning economist to figure out where these two economies are going.
How Free Israel Prospers As Islam Remains In Dark - Investors.com
Across the canvas of today's business world, SAP's brush continues to paint bold strokes of technological innovations. A significant number of these innovations have originated with SAP Labs Israel, a vital part of SAP's global development network. An R&D lab with two locations in Ra'anana and Karmiel, SAP Labs Israel is the company's fourth largest development center worldwide, employing more than 700 employees.
SAP Labs Israel is engaged in a continuous process of growth and development, one which nurtures its human resources. It encourages innovation, initiative, and excellence among its staff, while placing an emphasis on personal and professional development. The fact that the Israeli R&D center is heading the development of some of SAP's most cutting-edge products is a reflection of the creativity, diversity, and commitment characterizing our prevailing work ethic.
SAP Global - SAP Labs Israel: Taking Advantage of New Technologies
SAP AG, World's Largest Enterprise Software Company
SAP LABS ISRAEL:TAKING ADVANTAGE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Across the canvas of today's business world, SAP's brush continues to paint bold strokes of technological innovations. A significant number of these innovations have originated with SAP Labs Israel, a vital part of SAP's global development network. An R&D lab with two locations in Ra'anana and Karmiel, SAP Labs Israel is the company's fourth largest development center worldwide, employing more than 700 employees.
SAP Labs Israel is engaged in a continuous process of growth and development, one which nurtures its human resources. It encourages innovation, initiative, and excellence among its staff, while placing an emphasis on personal and professional development. The fact that the Israeli R&D center is heading the development of some of SAP's most cutting-edge products is a reflection of the creativity, diversity, and commitment characterizing our prevailing work ethic.
SAP Global - SAP Labs Israel: Taking Advantage of New Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that it has entered into a landmark renewable energy agreement with [Israeli-based] Solel-MSP-1 to purchase renewable energy from the Mojave Solar Park, to be constructed in CaliforniaÂ’s Mojave Desert. The project will deliver 553 megawatts of solar power, the equivalent of powering 400,000 homes, to PG&EÂ’s customers in northern and central California. The Mojave Solar Park project is now the worldÂ’s largest single solar commitment.
Solel Solar Systems of Israel, the worldÂ’s largest solar thermal company, is the parent company of Solel-MSP-1 LLC. SolelÂ’s leading technology utilizes parabolic mirrors to concentrate solar energy onto its patented UVAC 2008 solar thermal receivers. The receivers contain a fluid that is heated and circulated, and the heat is released to generate steam. The steam powers a turbine to produce electricity, which can be delivered to a utilityÂ’s electric grid. The electricity generated by Mojave Solar Park will use some of the transmission infrastructure originally built for the now dormant coal-fired Mojave Generation Station to deliver the power to PG&EÂ’s customers.
PG&E Signs Agreement With Solel for 553 Megawatts of Solar Power
Israeli Nobel Prizes for ground-breaking advances in science and economics...
Israeli Ada Yonath, Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science has won a Nobel Prize for chemistry for her pioneering research on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first woman in the Middle East to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences.