Geopolitics
Industrial Policy & Technological Sovereignty Trade-off
When a nation seeks both cutting-edge global technology and domestic industrial autonomy, it inevitably faces trade-off decisions—typically expressed through deals involving foreign R&D centers in exchange for supply priority and technology transfer commitments. This model is fundamentally a non-zero-sum exchange: the nation trades geographic advantage and market access for partial sovereignty coupled with tangible benefits.
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