Abstract
The Israeli extensive high-tech industry is examined in the light of a model that presents the process chain from knowledge and capital formation through innovation and invention to production. The deeper roots for the Israeli high-tech industry lie in Jewish cultural traits of scholastic learning and international communications, rather than in prolonged industrial development. Within a modern context, the industry based itself through a strong security accent, because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The phases in the development of the Israeli high-tech industry moved from the creation of a domestic base for R and D in information technology to a growing global one, blending between a leading domestic accumulation of knowledge, entrepreneurship, and limited capital on the one hand, and global capital and demands for technology on the other. The high-tech industry and the services for its operation are centred on metropolitan Tel-Aviv.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 270-286 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
Keywords
- High-tech industry
- Information technology
- Israel
- R and D
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Economics and Econometrics
