Both systems of innovation and cluster theories emphasize the importance of institutions that facilitate learning and information diffusion as well as community building for the continuous success of industrial systems. Nevertheless, they fail to combine their insights into a general...

The Israeli software industry has been an indisputable success since the 1990s. This paper micro-analyzes the industry and compares its unique historical development pattern with those of other emerging countries. It explains: (1) the rise of the industry as a part of the development of the...

The Israeli software industry has been an indisputable success since the 1990s. This paper utilizes the development of the Israeli industry to empirically explore the argument of the horizontal technology policies (HTP) framework on the impact of neutral science and technology policies on...