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Israel a tech start up hub. Some excerpts.
For more details: What makes Israel with just eight million people, an innovation hub - The Economic Times
There are also around 300 multinational companies in the country which are a big part of the ecosystem. Many of them, including Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, General Motors, and GE, have set up research and development facilities to use the local talent and come up with breakthroughs.
"You have 20-year-old kids here; their education is not to follow instructions, but to lead and solve problems," said Yossi Matias, managing director of Google's Israel R&D centre and a top computer scientist. In June, Google bought Israeli mapping startup Waze for over $1 billion (about Rs6,200 crore).
For more details: What makes Israel with just eight million people, an innovation hub - The Economic Times