>>>the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution. >Yes, but you are underestimating the

>>>the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution. >Yes, but you are underestimating the ways the state itself may "help" a company fail. Yes, but this also undermines your point that government-manufactured startups will necessarily get red-carpet treatment. Like I've said earlier, Malaysia is more like Romania, and the examples you've listed are peanuts compared to the kind of shenanigans you can get in Malaysia. I mean, this is a country whose PM is a nonagenarian who's made a spectacular political comeback [0], after having defeated his protégé [1] and his former party [2], and who's known for sending another protégé to jail on sodomy charges.[3] It's also a multi-ethnic country where the privileged status of the majority ethnicity is constitutionally protected[4] and backed by active affirmative action policies.[5] Which is why there's so much skepticism in this thread about the whole thing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najib_Razak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najib_Razak [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Malays_National_Organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Malays_National_Organis... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim_sodomy_trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim_sodomy_trials [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_153_of_the_Constitution_of_Malaysia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_153_of_the_Constitutio... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumiputera_(Malaysia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumiputera_(Malaysia)