START-UP NATION BOOK

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful,and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? How is it that Israel has, per person, attracted over twice as much venture capital investment as the US and thirty times more than Europe?... Israel has more companies on the tech-oriented NASDAQ stock exchange than any country outside the US - more than all of Europe and India combined. Nor is Israeli innovation limited to computers, security, and communications; the Jewish state leads the world in medical device patents, and is a strong global player in cleantech and biotech... Drawing on examples from the country's foremost inventors and investors, foreign policy insiders Dan Senor and Saul Singer describe how the country's adversity-..