The myth that innovation is "...the province of maverick individuals, not stodgy legacy players and certainly not cumbersome government bureaucracies..." Or as my informatics professor used to tell us back in the day, "slow and steady wins the race", she was also fond of, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
that book is really good. the points about how almost everything that makes up a phone was created by the state or by grants provided by state goes hard.
It's my absolute favorite rebuttal to anybody who tries to insist that privatization is a good thing
even fucking Google was grant funded lol