Reddit reviews Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Great question, because there's no simple answer. The Council on Foreign Relations published a book on this very question a few years ago. It's called Start Up Nation.

I read it a couple years ago. Many of the discovered reasons are a combination of culture, history, and circumstance.

• Culture: Failure is an accepted part of life. A person who opened a business that failed is not shunned at all. It's a part of the larger Israeli/Zionist culture of continuing to move forward, even after defeat and/or failure. This is a part of the 'chutzpa' (a Yiddish word roughly meaning gaul) of the Israeli ethos.
  
  
• History: There has for a long time been an importance placed upon education in Jewish history. Israel, if I recall correctly, is the only country where it's people established a University before establishing their independent state. Israel also leads the world in higher education degrees per capita. I believe that the latest stats indicate that Israel is second in University degrees per capita, trailing only Canada. Israelis are also world-leaders in academic papers published per capita.
  
  
• Circumstance: Because Israelis are put in the unenviable situation of requiring mandatory conscription (a draft), Israelis are put in unique circumstances. Interesting and otherwise unlikely human connections are made during military service, as people meet and work with people from outside their normal social circles. It is also a military where low-level commanders are given much more decision-making power than any other military, which normally use a top-down command and control approach. Also, as a qualitative military edge is needed for the survival of Israelis and their state, the army invests in a lot of high-tech equipment. Today's military technology thus becomes repurposed (with some innovation) as tomorrow's civilian product.
  
  That's a very rough breakdown of some of the main points. The book is a really great, quick read that I'd recommend to anyone because there are a lot of lessons that can be taken for anyone's application, no matter what the person's life circumstances.

As mai da doua referinte la un nivel mai macro-economic pentru cat de mult conteaza un ecosistem prietenes pentru afaceri, mai ales IMM-uri... Care Iohannis chiar a stimulat in sibiu.

Prima - Why nations fail - Modelul de guvernare PSD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=whynatfai-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307719219

A doua:
http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Miracle/dp/0446541478

Cum o tara fara resurse (okay cu ajutor american) si cu multe IMM-uri a ajuns putere economica.

1.- [Man´s Search for Meaning] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080701429X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=whacrhogymabe-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=080701429X&linkId=b7502d4b24e703179203783ca1aecf93) - Viktor Frankl

2.- [Brave World] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060776099/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=whacrhogymabe-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0060776099&linkId=2f25c9c58432eb79d75d0301d7bfc15e) - Aldous Huxley

3.- 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris

4.- [Start Up Nation] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446541478/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=whacrhogymabe-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0446541478&linkId=1570aaf14626b3c83c80115430565640) - Dan Senor

An excellent read on the topic is Startup Nation.

I second JohannQ on this. You might be interesting in reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Miracle/dp/0446541478/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410626536&sr=8-1&keywords=startup+nation

It explains to you Israel's economy and how successful their IT sector is.


In the introduction to the book, Shimon Perez talks about AI being an important technology in the next 20 years.