The Office of the Chief Scientist and the financing of high tech research and development, 2000–2010

Venture capital and government involvement from a qualitative systematic literature review perspective

“…There is a group of articles that found GVC to complement PVC investments. Cohen et al (2012) highlighted that public funding of R&D complements the private venture capital funding in the Israeli high-tech industry and Baldock -Mason (2015) have the same findings in the UK. Furthermore, they found that GVC stimulated the economy of the UK through employment Brander et al (2015) found on an international dataset that the GVC funding increases the total amount of VC funding available to companies, thus there is no crowding-out effect.…”

“…Case studies (including comparative case studies) and econometric analyses are the most popular research methods featuring 8 and 10 articles within our database (see Table 2). The popularity of case studies can be explained, on the one hand, by the fact that certain authors are practical experts at the field drawing from their large local experience (Avnimelech et al 2007;Avnimelech 2008;Cohen et al 2012). On the other hand, data collection is especially difficult in this field, as Zangh (2014: 112) highlighted: "It is quite difficult for an outside researcher to acquire the original contracts and agreements, either from venture capital or from its investees, which describe the application of these mechanisms among them.…”

“…Frenkel et al (2008) 2008) is based on the same premise, but he focuses on the startup ecosystem as a whole and studies the innovation and technology policy in Israel. The motivation of Avnimelech et al (2007) and Wonglimpiyarat (2016) is extended also by the success of the Israeli Yozma programme, while Cohen et al (2012) deal primarily with the Office of the Chief Scientist programme.…”

“…After the beginning of the 2008 global financial crisis several authors phrase recommendations for the government of their investigated country, such as Wonglimpiyarat (2011) to the Thai, Cohen et al (2012) to the Israeli, Zhang (2014) to the Chinese and Gill (2015) to the British. A group of articles analyzed the governmental response to the crisis by various countries.…”

How globalisation impacted Israel and India differently in the 1990s

“…7 However, the most significant development of Israel's advanced industry was evident in the 1990s, mainly in the areas of media and computerisation. In these years, the output of these high-tech branches grew and their exports expanded considerably (Cohen, Gabbay, & Schiffman, 2012;Rivlin, 2015).…”