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Actually, Tunisia—–had a very strong tradition of entrepreneurship in the trading business, but it had not spread to the other sectors at this time. Actually, must lesser developed countries tend to ignore the importance of entrepreneurship, and concentrate their economic development efforts on infrastructure and state controlled enterprises and strengthening the existing large businesses in the country. The latter generally do not want an entrepreneurial economy where there will be competitors threatening their typical monopolistic positions.


Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman
  • Born: January 24, 1941
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Profession: Scientist

Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals. Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.