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Highest Nobel prize per capita. Has an advanced military intelligence arm and released soldiers are great employees for the IT security sector. These two combin

by 0xedd 5y ago

Highest Nobel prize per capita. Has an advanced military intelligence arm and released soldiers are great employees for the IT security sector. These two combined create a strong cyber security presence. Regardless, I don't know what regulations you refer to when the US and China lead the charge on actively spying on the entire world. The US drags down with it many western countries. Which is how the "5 eyes" was created. And no one bats an eyelash. After the US was exposed for what the NSA did against its allies, no one was persecuted and the Senate was powerless to do anything. All inquires were met with "classified". So, at best, the propaganda over there convinced one person that there are regulations restraining military intelligence and the CIA.

unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Also they have (or had) a very high technology export tax; this has the tendency to concentrate certain kinds of development entirely within Israel. So it's not just that they have a high level of expertise; there is a strong economic disincentive for firms to move tech business out of Israel.
- tguvot 5y ago
  tech firms actually add presence in israel but ip is usually owned by other entities, outside of israel. usually the biggest problem with ip in israel, it's in case that there was investment into company/development by chief scientist. it comes with a lot of strings attached and requires payoff to transfer ip outside of state
pthread_t 5y ago
> Highest Nobel prize per capita Israel is #11 [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_laureates_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...
- lostlogin 5y ago
  Interesting list. I think you can ignore the first 2 or 3 as places that have one 1 or 2 winners and have a small population skew it. However that doesn’t move Israel up much. The Scandinavian countries are looking good as per usual.

by 0xedd 5y ago

unfocussed_mike 5y ago

Also they have (or had) a very high technology export tax; this has the tendency to concentrate certain kinds of development entirely within Israel. So it's not just that they have a high level of expertise; there is a strong economic disincentive for firms to move tech business out of Israel.

tguvot 5y ago
tech firms actually add presence in israel but ip is usually owned by other entities, outside of israel. usually the biggest problem with ip in israel, it's in case that there was investment into company/development by chief scientist. it comes with a lot of strings attached and requires payoff to transfer ip outside of state

pthread_t 5y ago

> Highest Nobel prize per capita Israel is #11 [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_laureates_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...

lostlogin 5y ago
Interesting list. I think you can ignore the first 2 or 3 as places that have one 1 or 2 winners and have a small population skew it. However that doesn’t move Israel up much. The Scandinavian countries are looking good as per usual.