Innovative Region: Israel
Israel is known as the startup nation for its high density of entrepreneurs and venture capital in proportion to the population but with corporate help and notable exits, such as Mobileye’s acquisition by Intel for $15bn, it is increasingly becoming the scale-up nation too.
In 2018, Israel had the fifth-largest deal volume in the world backed by corporates, and eighth when measured by deal value – the actual capital invested – at $1.6bn. The Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Centre…
