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Keaveney, Hannah (2019)

How has Israel utilised neoliberal ideas and policy to initiate its start-up sector?

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

The growth of the technological start-up sector in Israel was vital in the economic growth of the country. While Israel had previously been a statist political economy through an intense state involvement in its business sectors, an adoption of neoliberalism by the state and its institutions enabled the growth of venture capital investments for start-ups. In taking an analytical perspective on the growth of Israel’s start-ups and how such growth was achieved through the utilisation of neoliberalism as a tool, this paper will argue that neoliberalism and it’s utilisations enabled the growth of start-ups in Israel, shifting the country to have possession of the most start-ups per capita.

Neoliberalism

Global Political Economy

Start-up

technological

Author

Keaveney, Hannah

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Global Political Economy

Supervisors

Santino Regilme, Salvador

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en