As I illustrate and analyze at length in my new book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State, the state has become central to the Innovation Economy’s dynamics. It funds the upstream research that generates discovery and invention; supports the creation of new networks, from canals to the Internet; and serves as a creative customer for innovative products, as it did during the computer revolution’s nascence.
正如我在新书《在创新经济中施行资本主义：市场、投机和国家》说明与分析的一样，国家已经成为创新经济动力的关键。它资助能产生发现和发明的上游研究；支持新网络的建立——无论是从前的运河还是如今的互联网；同时也作为创新产品的消费者，正如其在计算机革命发生时所做的一样。