Yoel Esteron, a political centrist who is publisher and editor of a daily business paper, Calcalist, wrote an essay for Independence Day that praises the islands of high-tech excellence in Israel, but frets that they are surrounded by seas of underdevelopment.
The mines, the shipyards, the textile mills and the engineering plants were being shut down because they could not compete but would be be replaced by gleaming-new centres of high-tech industrial excellence.
These days, however, people are inundated by more distractions than ever before, wrote Goleman, who also authored Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence "Tech gadgets and apps invade our concentration in ways the brain's design never anticipated".
NUS enjoys close relationships with 10 national institutes, 14 university research institutes, and more than 50 faculty-based research centers, and it seems likely that the combination of research excellence and tech transfer know-how will quickly lead to many other entrepreneurial opportunities.
In fact, executional excellence, at which large tech companies usually excel, often runs counter to the culture of risk taking required to spawn new, disruptive initiatives.
It will offer an English-only International Executive MBA focused on the high-tech sector, and three Centres of Excellence aimed at helping Israel's high-tech companies penetrate markets in America, Europe and Asia.
"The trend now is to concentrate high-tech services into centers of excellence and leave community hospitals in their appropriate niche.
SAN FRANCISCO April 16, 2009 TechCrunch, a leading technology blog, and Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, today announced the TechFellow Awards, a new annual program honoring technology innovators for achievement and excellence in high-tech entrepreneurship.
But despite the lack of diversity in the industry, many tech companies are celebrating the history of black excellence this month.
To borrow some tech-sector jargon, "MEEM" was disruptive innovation par excellence.
A yearlong look at technology news coverage by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 15.1 percent of tech articles were primarily about Apple; 11.4 percent were about Google; and a meager 3 percent were about Microsoft.
