Transcript - Vibe Israel

Here you will find Israel's business proposition in the fields of
Trade and Investment, as they appear in the Israel Brand Book
published by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In addition, you will find several stand-alone supporting
messages you can copy-paste into your own presentations to
leverage your "pitch".
Israel's Promise to Business Partners:
"Future-proof Innovation"
Trade
Trade
Future-proof Innovation
Israel’s creative energy manifests in its
private sector as a robust, research based
approach to innovation, which is responding
to the pressures and demands of an
increasingly globalized world. Israel will
install in its business partners the same
future-proof approach to innovation that
characterizes the approach of its own
entrepreneurs. That future-proof innovation
is embodied in Israeli products and services
too.
Trade
Supporting Messages
Advanced technologies developed
in Israel are in great demand, and
many Israeli-developed applications
can be found in the products of
multinational companies throughout
the world, in communications,
computers, information systems,
medicine, optics, consumer goods
and software sectors.
Business infrastructure in Israel is
world-class, boosted by the
diversity of successful businesses,
from multinational corporations with
their own R&D production facilities
to real estate firms.
Israel innovates at a remarkable rate,
ranking 3rd in the world (based on the
Global Competitiveness Report of the
World Economic Forum 2014-2015).
Past inventions include InstantMessaging technology, life-changing
medical diagnostic equipment
(including MRI), cyber security,
agricultural technology and many
more.
Trade
Supporting Messages
Israel’s CEOs, business executives
and managers make strong
business partners with international
firms because they exemplify a
combination of global experience
and entrepreneurship.
Israel’s Ministry of Trade has
implemented an industrial R&D
cooperation program which aims to
connect Israeli start-ups with
multinational companies helping
them grow and strengthen
competitive advantage.
Israel produces a high level of
research, both in terms of volume
and quality. In 2015 its R&D activity
accounted for 4.2% of its GDP,
second only to South Korea. The
expenditure on R&D per capita in
2015 was $1,357, the highest in the
world.
Israel's Promise to Investors:
Making it Really Happen
Investment
Investment
Making it really happen
Investing in Israel means investing in creative
energy, in projects and initiatives that are
responding to changing global conditions,
employing workers who are literate and
smart, with interests based on the right kind
of risk (informed, professional market and
business risk, not political or fiscal). This is
why Israeli investments work even in times of
global economic crisis.
Investment
Supporting Messages
Israel maintains a liberal and open Foreign
Direct Investment regime, with foreigners
facing very few legal restrictions. The
government encourages foreign investment
by offering generous incentives including low
cost investment grants, tax benefits and
exemptions for foreign investors through the
Law for the Encouragement of Capital
Investments.
The number of start-ups in Israel (over
6,000) is second only to that of the U.S. and
"resembles Silicon Valley more than any
other place in the world“, according to Bill
Gates, founder of Microsoft. The government
offers generous assistance to both high
technology and other start-ups, to subsidize
R&D and capital spending.
Investment
Supporting Messages
Israel has an effective system for bringing
ideas and innovations to market. This knowhow is supported by a thriving venture
capital industry, ranking 2nd in the world for
venture capital availability. In 2015, $3.5
billion was raised from venture capitalists
and 69 companies were sold for the total
sum of $5.4 billion.
Israel is an export-driven country led by its
high-tech sector, with over 3,000 indigenous
R&D-driven high technology firms
accounting for almost half of Israel's billions
of dollars' worth of high tech exports. Much
of what Israel sells to the world is based on
inventions at places like the Weizmann
Institute of Science, the Israel Institute of
Technology (the Technion) and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
Investment
Supporting Messages
Israeli culture places a premium on
risk-taking and entrepreneurship,
whilst compulsory military service
prepares individuals for the
corporate, team-orientated
environment. This explains why
Israelis are so successful in the field
of hi-tech.
Israel's scientific and technological
achievements are further
strengthened by the presence of
international R&D centers of worldleading technology firms. These
include Intel, Microsoft, IBM,
Motorola, Google, Philips, Oracle,
Siemens, HP, Samsung and more.
74 Israeli companies are currently
traded on the NASDAQ stock
exchange, one of the largest
representations for a non-U.S.
economy.
Let’s Make it
Really Happen!
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