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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

In class 1, we learned that national power is the combination of a country’s diplomacy (soft power and alliances), information/intelligence, its military, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Slide 15, Russia’s pivot to China.

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Israel Ranked 29th in Easiness of Doing Business According to the World Bank

VC Cafe

The charge for registering a change of property ownership in Syria amounts to more than a quarter of the building’s entire value. The report didn’t take corruption and the state of the economy into account, but I can’t wait to see less red tape, more online government services and lower costs for Israeli entrepreneurs.