O perigo da cristalização (parte II)

Este postal de Março de 2008 "O perigo da cristalização" casa perfeitamente com este trecho:
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"One of the great experiments in selective innovation was Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (or MITI), which was created to guide industrial policy out of the rubble left by World War II. In addition to basic economic policy, it was also responsible for funding research and directing investment into the most promising areas.

Initially, MITI was an enormous success. It’s forward thinking management of Japanese industry created an economic miracle in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Companies like Toyota and Sony became global icons, while western nations viewed the Japanese economic juggernaut with a mix of fear and envy.

Then came Japan’s Lost Decade, and the tight network of elite banks and corporations proved to be too rigid to adapt to an enormous asset price bubble. Meanwhile, the loose network of garage start-ups and venture capital in America’s Silicon Valley created new information-based industries that no one saw coming.

While Japan had been, and to some extent continues to be, a leader in the old industrial economy that MITI designed for, it remains a laggard in information age industries even today, 20 years after the Lost Decade began.

You can’t plan for what you don’t see coming."
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Trecho retirado de "The Selective Innovation Trap"