Isn't that sort of what happened with bureaucrat Michael Griffin wrt SpaceX? And S. Korea developed with lots of public directing of development of industry.

Isn't that sort of what happened with bureaucrat Michael Griffin wrt SpaceX? And S. Korea developed with lots of public directing of development of industry. EU's big lead on EUV tech with ASML partly came out of US government/industry partnership (EUV LLC in the 1990s), which is why we could restrict them even now from selling to China.