No civilization is entitled to technological innovation and economic growth just because it demands it. You have to engineer that goal into reality. And if you

No civilization is entitled to technological innovation and economic growth just because it demands it. You have to engineer that goal into reality. And if you want risk-taking startups and entrenched corporations to work together, you are going to have to devise a communist style government or something. The free markets would just forgo national gross domestic product maximization and line up their own little pockets, free from the top-down authoritarianism required to organize large scale techno-economic activity. The Roman empire started out as two little baby boys and a momma wolf's teats. Good luck replicating that evolution from zero to hero without the right framework.