I think it's a huge stretch to say the two concepts aren't related. To take the example of the military; we have the "military industrial complex" which is the

I think it's a huge stretch to say the two concepts aren't related. To take the example of the military; we have the "military industrial complex" which is the collection of private companies that form the vital part of the state's war functions. To become technologically sovereign will require a similar basket of private companies based in your own State, unless you expect the government to be capable of all of these tasks effectively itself. Think universities, chip designers, fabs, factories. This is also not an all or nothing choice - the absence of Lithium in the UK is not a good argument against considering strategically what aspects of the tech industry should be sovereign.