SINGAPORE - The economic mantra goes like this: innovation is crucial to productivity, and productivity leads to growth. Hence governments around the world are right to channel resources into innovative and growing industries.
But picking winners is an imprecise art. Pumping money into promising start-ups, for example, does not guarantee that they will scale up and become viable.
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