From where is the following?
Israel currently has almost 4,000 active technology start-ups – more than any other country outside the United States, according to Israel Venture Capital Research Centre.
In 2010 alone the flow of venture capital amounted to $884m (£558m).
The result: high-tech exports from Israel are valued at about $18.4bn a year, making up more than 45% of Israel’s exports, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Israel is a world leader in terms of research and development spending as a percentage of the economy; it’s top in both the number of start-ups and engineers as a proportion of the population; and it’s first in per capita venture capital investment.
Not bad for a country of some eight million people – fewer than, say, Moscow or New York.
a) BBC
b) Israeli21c
c) Israel Hayom
The answer is….
a) BBC
No, really. Read the whole thing.
The article is accompanied by the following photo:
I imagined them to be pigs.
