Start-up Nation

3. Interview with Jon Medved, CEO and board member, Vringo, May 2008.

4. Interview with Yigal Erlich, founder, chairman, and managing partner of the Yozma Group, May 2008.

5. Gil Avnimelech and Morris Tuebal, “Venture Capital Policy in Israel: A Comparative Analysis and Lessons for Other Countries,” research paper, Hebrew University School of Business Administration and School of Economics, October 2002, p. 17.

6. The information about BIRD’s founding is from an interview with Ed Mlavsky, chairman and founding partner of Gemini Israel Funds, December 2008.

7. BIRD (Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation), “BIRD Foundation to Invest $9 Million in 12 Advanced Development Projects in Life Sciences, Energy, Communications, Software and Nanotechnology,” http://www.birdf.com/_Uploads/255BOG08PREng.pdf.

8. Dan Breznitz, Innovation of the State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 60.

9. Ed Mlavsky in a PowerPoint slide presentation to Wharton MBA students, 2008.

10. Interview with Jon Medved.

11. Interview with Yigal Erlich.

12. Ibid.

13. Interview with Orna Berry.

14. Yossi Sela, managing partner, Gemini Venture Funds, http://www.gemini.co.il/? p=TeamMember&CategoryID=161&MemberId=197.

15. Interview with Erel Margalit.

16. David McWilliams, “Ireland Inc. Gets Innovated,” Sunday Business Post On-Line, December 21, 2008, http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=DAVID+McWilliams- qqqs=commentandanalysis-qqqid=38312-qqqx=1.asp; retrieved January 2009.

17. Interview with Tal Keinan, cofounder of KCPS, May and December 2008.

18. Interview with Ron Dermer, former economic attache, Embassy of Israel in United States, and senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 2008.

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

CHAPTER 11

. Betrayal and Opportunity

Epigraph: Quoted in Julie Ball, “Israel’s Booming Hi-Tech Industry,” BBC News, October 6, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7654780.stm; retrieved January 2009.

1. John Kao, Innovation Nation (New York: Free Press, 2007).

2. Michael Bar-Zohar, Shimon Peres: The Biography (New York: Random House, 2007). p. 223. Also Reuters, “Peres Biography: Israel, France Had Secret Pact to Produce Nuclear Weapons,” May 30, 2007.

3. Michael M. Laskier, “Israel and Algeria amid French Colonialism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1954–1978,” Israel Studies, June 2, 2001, pp. 1–32, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/israel_studies/v006/6.2laskier.html; retrieved September 2008.

4. De Gaulle quoted in Alexis Berg and Dominique Vidal, “De Gaulle’s Lonely Predictions,” Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2007, http://monde diplo.com/2007/06/10degaulle; retrieved September, 2008.

5. Quoted in Berg and Vidal, “De Gaulle’s Lonely Predictions.”

6. “Israel’s Fugitive Flotilla,” Time, January 12, 1970, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,942140,00.html.

7. Stewart Wilson, Combat Aircraft Since 1945 (Fyshwick, Australia: Aerospace Publications, 2000), p. 77.

8. Ruud Deurenberg, “Israel Aircraft Industries and Lavi,” Jewish Virtual Library, January 26, 2009, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/lavi.html.

9. James P. DeLoughry, “The United States and the Lavi,” Airpower Journal vol. 4, no. 3 (1990), pp. 34–44, http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/3fal90.htm.

10. Interview with Yossi Gross, director and cofounder of TransPharma Medical, and founder of many medical- device start-ups, December 2008.

CHAPTER 12

. From Nose Cones to Geysers

1. Interview with Doug Wood, head of creative affairs, Animation Lab, May 2008.

2. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name), December 2008.