Three Innovation Centers in the World —— Israel

If every nation in the world is regarded as a student, there is no doubt that Jews are a nation that learns to dominate. Of course, there are historical reasons for this. After the extermination of Jews, they have lived in a sponsor's house for more than 2000 years. Moreover, Judaism is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, whether Jews are scattered around the world or not, firm faith brings Jews super cohesion. On the other hand, Judaism is extremely exclusive, openly claiming that only Jews are God's voters, so others are certainly unconvinced. Therefore, Jews have been excluded from Europe in various ways, which leads to Jews' insecurity and may be driven away at any time. If you are driven away, knowledge is the most valuable except some wealth that you can carry with you. For more than two thousand years, Jews have valued knowledge as much as life. From an evolutionary point of view, because Jews have long preferred knowledge, high IQ genes have been branded into their DNA, which is a natural advantage. Of course, the price is that Israel has been displaced for more than 2,000 years. Up to now, Israel is still sitting on a powder keg, facing a hundred times more enemies than itself.

Let's look at this set of data: Israelis read an average of 64 books every year, and there is a library for every 4,500 people. The per capita reading volume ranks first in the world, and the per capita library number ranks first in the world. Compared with Guangzhou, it is estimated that the number of libraries in Guangzhou and universities will not exceed 300. With a population of 8 million, Israel has nearly 65,438+0,800 well-equipped libraries. Israel's education expenditure is also the highest in the world, accounting for 8% of GDP. China's education expenditure only reached 4% in 20 12, and it was basically below 3% before. Let's compare it again: in 20 16, China read 7.86 books per capita, including 4.65 paper books and 3.2 e-books per kloc-0. Of course, you may say that reading is useless. If you can't apply what you have learned, it's just a bookcase with two legs. As a nation that learns to dominate the world, it is impossible to be described as a donkey full of books. The Jewish population is around 654.38+million, accounting for about 0.2% of the world, but it won 29% of the Nobel Prize. In a word, the Jewish people are an open-minded people. Think about how terrible it would be for such a country to invest in innovation. Fortunately, their total population is not large. If the Jewish population reaches 1 100 million, the world will not belong to Korea, but become Jewish.

2. The huge financial and technical support from the United States.

No matter which American president takes office, it is necessary to reconcile the relationship between Israel's natural dream allies. No way, the economic lifeline of the United States is basically in the hands of Jews, who also control the American media and can directly manipulate public opinion. So naturally, Israel can also seamlessly connect with the United States in terms of funds. The huge capital of the United States will give priority to Israeli projects, and many military technologies will be given to Israel for free. Of course, Israelis must live up to their expectations. Intellectual advantage is not only to attract American capital, but also a lot of China's capital has been invested in Israel in recent years. For example, China's Internet giants all invest in Israel. In addition, Li Ka-shing has invested in 22 Israeli projects. So we can see that strange phenomena have happened in this tiny place with only 20,000 square kilometers. Israel leads the world in research funding and engineers, with 160 people per 10,000 people, ranking first in the world (90 people in the United States). Per capita venture capital also ranks first in the world, with nearly 1,000 high-tech companies, second only to the United States. By the way, let's talk about an episode: 1996, three Israelis, Wesger, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that would allow people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet. They named the new software ICQ, which means "I'm looking for you". This software directly gave birth to Tencent Empire. Tencent copied this ICQ from the beginning, and QQ was called QICQ before. Because the Israeli market is too small, many new technologies are now bought directly from the United States and China. 2 1 century What is the most expensive, and talents are the most expensive!

3. The power of fear

The hostility of the Arabs around, facing an enemy that is 100 times stronger than itself, Israel is in danger of national extinction at any time, which is equivalent to standing on the cliff of death and sitting in an active crater, not knowing when the volcano will erupt. Fear of death turns into motivation, because they feel the threat of death at any time. As we said, nothing is important except death, so innovation and failure are a piece of cake for them.