Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
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Twelve
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First eBook Edition: November 2009
ISBN: 978-0-446-55831-0
CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT
AUTHORS’ NOTE
MAPS
Introduction
Part I: The Little Nation That Could
Chapter 1: Persistence
Chapter 2: Battlefield Entrepreneurs
Part II: Seeding a Culture of Innovation
Chapter 3: The People of the Book
Chapter 4: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale
Chapter 5: Where Order Meets Chaos
Part III: Beginnings
Chapter 6: An Industrial Policy That Worked
Chapter 7: Immigration
Chapter 8: The Diaspora
Chapter 9: The Buffett Test
Chapter 10: Yozma
Part IV: Country with a Motive
Chapter 11: Betrayal and Opportunity
Chapter 12: From Nose Cones to Geysers
Chapter 13: The Sheikh’s Dilemma
Chapter 14: Threats to the Economic Miracle
Conclusion: Farmers of High Tech
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE TWELVE
AUTHORS’ NOTE
This is a book about innovation and entrepreneurship, and how one small country, Israel, came to embody both.
