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Israel has created a knowledge economy centered on high-tech start-ups almost to the exclusion of anything else. Given the extraordinary defense and political pressures that Israel has faced in the 25 years since the high-tech industry came into its own, this is an extraordinary achievement. While has Israel suffered multiple wars and political gyrations, societal values favoring a start-up culture outweighed them. Nevertheless, that achievement has been marred by failures, among them the inability to leverage its innovative capacities into big, sustainable companies; a parallel economy of inefficient and globally uncompetitive companies; and rising poverty and inequality. High tech has failed to deliver benefits to the wider Israeli economy. Israel’s experience should be instructive to other small economies that aspire to a high-tech industry.
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Rosenberg, D. (2018). Israel as a Knowledge Economy I. In: Israel's Technology Economy. Middle East in Focus. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76654-6_3
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