Start-up Nation

3. Manuel Trajtenberg and Gil Shiff, “Identification and Mobility of Israeli Patenting Inventors,” Discussion Paper No. 5-2008, Pinchas Sapir Center for Development, Tel Aviv University, April 2008.

4. John Russell, “Compugen Transforms Its Business,” Bio-ITWorld .com, October 17, 2005, http://www.bio- itworld.com/issues/2005/oct/bus-compugen?page:int=-1.

5. Interview with Ruti Alon, partner, Pitango Venture Capital, and chairperson, boards of BioControl, BrainsGate, and TransPharma Medical, December 2008.

CHAPTER 13

. The Sheikh’s Dilemma

1. Interview with Michael Porter, professor of economics, Harvard Business School, March 2009.

2. Rhoula Khalaf, “Dubai’s Ruler Has Big Ideas for His Little City-State,” Financial Times, May 3, 2007.

3. Michael Matley and Laura Dillon, “Dubai Strategy: Past, Present, Future,” Harvard Business School, February 27, 2007, p. 3.

4. Quoted in Assaf Gilad, “Silicon Wadi: Who Will Internet Entrepreneurs Turn to in Crisis?” Cataclist, September 19, 1998.

5. Saul Singer, “Superpower in Silicon Wadi,” Jerusalem Post, June 19, 1998.

6. Quoted in Steve Lohr, “Like J. P. Morgan, Warren Buffett Braves a Crisis,” New York Times, October 5, 2008.

7. Quoted in Eyal Marcus, “Israeli Start-ups Impress at TechCrunch50,” Globes Online, September 14, 2008.

8. James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. xix, 224.

9. Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), quoted in Collins and Porras, Built to Last, p. xix.

10. Interview with Riad al-Allawi, Jordanian entrepreneur, March 2009.

11. Fadi Ghandour, in Stefan Theil, “Teaching Entrepreneurship in the Arab World,” Newsweek International, August 14, 2007; also available at http://www.gmfus.org/publications/article.cfm? id=332; retrieved March 2009.

12. Bernard Lewis, “Free at Last? The Arab World in the Twenty-first Century,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2009. Similar observation has been made by Samuel Huntington.

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