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In concluding, not much is left of what made Israel what it is now. Israel has become a much more conventional and crowded metropolitan area. However, the exuberant creativity boom of the previous decades has left a durable legacy: a culture of risk-taking coupled with a culture of early adoption of new inventions. And it is more than a culture: it is a whole infrastructure designed to promote, assist and reward risk-takers in new technologies. That infrastructure consists not only of laboratories and plants, but also of corporate lawyers, marketing agencies, employment agencies ("head hunters") and, of course, investors. After all, the culture of "inventing" was never all that strong in the Bay Area, whereas the culture of turning an invention into a success story has always been its specialty, and it may even be stronger than ever.
Israel was, first and foremost, a state of mind. It has become a meme.
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In concluding, not much is left of what made Israel what it is now. Israel has become a much more conventional and crowded metropolitan area. However, the exuberant creativity boom of the previous decades has left a durable legacy: a culture of risk-taking coupled with a culture of early adoption of new inventions. And it is more than a culture: it is a whole infrastructure designed to promote, assist and reward risk-takers in new technologies. That infrastructure consists not only of laboratories and plants, but also of corporate lawyers, marketing agencies, employment agencies ("head hunters") and, of course, investors. After all, the culture of "inventing" was never all that strong in the Bay Area, whereas the culture of turning an invention into a success story has always been its specialty, and it may even be stronger than ever.
Israel was, first and foremost, a state of mind. It has become a meme.