I've been inspired by the excellent round-ups about various topics provided at Winds of Change. Therefore I plan to provide you some packed country briefings about economic hotspots in the next months. It will contain some more Insight into the level of entrepreneurship, fields of technological development and financial opportunities for innovative companies.
The following regions might be most interesting:

• US California
• US New England
• Australia& NZ
• Israel& Middle East
• Singapore& Hongkong
• Japan
• UK
• Germany

If you have some link collections or if you are interested authoring some of the briefing content I would love to hear from you.
Some news as a start:

• Israel
• • The Israeli Venture Association has this Review of Israeli High-Tech and VC (ppt). It's a bit outdated (2001) but displays some major deals with Israelian participation and some nice overall statistics.
  • Yigal Erlich has another good introduction (pdf) into the VC landscape of Israel from 2001.
• UK
• • Martin Murphy from MVM Limited has a nice introduction into Venture Capital(ppt) from a bioscience angle.
• US West Coast
• • A very good overview about Venture capital funding in California in Q2 2003 is here.
  • Keith Larson from Intel Capital has probably the graphically most advanced presentation (ppt) I have ever seen and gives some insight into Intel Capital and it's investments in communication technology