(Business Insider) Sam Shead - Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Intel are among more than 300 multinationals that have opened up research and development facilities in Israel. At an innovation conference in Tel Aviv last week, Google developer partner advocate Don Dodge said: "There is no other country on Earth that thinks the same way that we [Google] do like Israel does." Today Google employs over 600 engineers in Israel and they work on several of Google's core products, including Search, Maps, and Live Results. There are cheaper engineers in places like Russia, India, and China, but they're often not as good, according to Dodge. "It's about innovation, creativity, taking tremendous risks." Roy Ramon, managing director of the Intel Ingenuity Partner Program, noted that Intel employs 11,000 workers in Israel. "The reason I started the startup program is because when you meet with a company in Israel, they come in and tell engineers that they're doing it all wrong. They push everything off the table. These engineers have been doing this for years. They're world experts. And yet that startup is bold enough to come to a mammoth like Intel and say you're doing it all wrong. This is one culture that you can't get anywhere in the world."
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