Dan Singer: Start-up Nation

13. Quoted in Christopher M. Davidson, Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 166.

14. UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), The Arab Human Development Report, 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (New York: United Nations Publications, 2006).

15. Interview with Christopher M. Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success , March 2009.

16. Quoted in Fannie F. Andrews, The Holy Land Under Mandate , vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1931), p. 4.

17. Hagit Messer-Yaron, Capitalism and the Ivory Tower (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence Publishing, 2008), p. 82.

18. America-Israel Friendship League, “Facts About Israel and the U.S.,” http://www.aifl.org/html/web/resource_facts.html.

19. McKinsey & Company, “Perspective on the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region,” July 2008. All of the data in this section comes from this study.

20. David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (New York: Norton, 1999), pp. 412–13.

CHAPTER 14

. Threats to the Economic Miracle

1. Quoted in Joanna Chen, “The Chosen Stocks Rally,” Newsweek , March 14, 2009, http://www.newsweek.com/id/189283.

2. Amiram Cohen, “Kibbutz Industries Also Adopt Four-Day Workweek,” Haaretz , March 12, 2009, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070086.html.

3. Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, December 2008.

4. Jennifer Evans, “Best Places to Work for Postdocs 2009,” The Scientist.com, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 47, http://www.the-scientist.com/bptw.

5. Interview with Dan Ben-David, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University, June 2008.

6. Israel’s overall workforce participation level is 55 percent among adults, among the lowest in the West. The overall average is pulled down mainly by the extremely low workforce-participation levels of two minority groups: ultra-Orthodox Jews (40 percent participation) and Arab women (19 percent participation). These figures are cited in the Israel 2028 report, which recommends working to raise workforce participation rates of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab women to 55 percent and 50 percent, respectively, by 2028. U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, Israel 2028: Vision and Strategy for Economy and Society in a Global World , edited by David Brodet (n.p.: U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, March 2008).

7. Dan Ben-David, “The Moment of Truth,” Haaretz , February 6, 2007. Also reprinted with graphs on Dan Ben-David’s Web site: http://tau.ac.il/~danib/articles/MomentOfTruthEng.htm.

8. Helmi Kittani and Hanoch Marmari, “The Glass Wall,” Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, June 15, 2006, http://www.cjaed.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=269&CategoryID=147&Page=1.

9. Quoted in Yoav Stern, “Study: Israeli Arab Attitudes Toward Women Undergoing Change,” Haaretz , March 14, 2009, http://www.haaretz .com/hasen/spages/1008797.html.

10. U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, Israel 2028 , p. 39.

11. Reut Institute, “Last Chance to Become an Economic Superpower,” March 5, 2009, http://reut-institute.org/en/Publication .aspx?PublicationId=3573.

12. Thomas Friedman speech at Reut Institute conference, Tel Aviv, June 2008.

Conclusion: Farmers of High Tech

1. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Patent Office, “Compendium of Patent Statistics,” 2008, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/19/37569377.pdf.

2. Interview with Antti Vilpponen, founder, ArcticStartup, January 2009.

3. Craig L. Pearce, “Follow the Leaders,” Wall Street Journal/MIT Sloan Management Review , July 7, 2008, http://sloanreview.mit.edu/business-insight/articles/2008/3/5034/follow-the-leaders/.

4. Quoted in Gallup, “Gallup Reveals the Formula for Innovation,” Gallup Management Journal, May 10, 2007, http://gmj.gallup.com/content/27514/Gallup-Reveals-the-Formula-for-%20Innovation.aspx.

5. Dov Frohman and Robert Howard, Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t be Taught—and How You Can Learn It Anyway (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), p. 7.

6. Quoted in Ronald Bailey, “Post-Scarcity Prophet: Economist Paul Romer on Growth, Technological Change, and an Unlimited Human Future,” Reason Online, December 2001, http://www.reason.com/news/show/28243.html.

7. Ronald Bailey, “Post-Scarcity Prophet”; and Paul Romer, “Economic Growth,” both in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics , edited by David R. Henderson (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007), http://www.stanford.edu/~promer/EconomicGrowth.pdf.

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