"We need to focus on the development of innovation and high technology, as this is the key to the future success of our country"

Framing national success around innovation and high technology elevates the economy’s most dynamic engines: knowledge creation, rapid diffusion, and the capacity to commercialize ideas. It signals a shift from dependence on commodities or low-cost labor toward productivity-led growth, higher value-added exports, and resilience against external shocks. Countries that lead in advanced manufacturing, software, AI, biotechnology, and green technologies tend to capture outsized shares of profits, set standards, and shape global supply chains, translating technical leadership into strategic autonomy.

It is also pragmatic. Innovation ecosystems do not arise spontaneously; they are cultivated through sustained investment in research, strong universities, STEM education, vocational pathways, and open scientific collaboration. Startups need risk capital, clear rules, and predictable courts. Established firms need incentives to upgrade, adopt digital tools, and partner with labs. The state can catalyze through mission-driven procurement, tax credits, and interoperable digital infrastructure, while avoiding micromanagement. Protecting intellectual property, enabling data flows with safeguards, and ensuring competition policy prevents monopolistic stagnation are equally important. Talent is decisive: attracting global experts, nurturing local researchers, and reversing brain drain together create a virtuous cycle.

Yet the aspiration carries caveats. High technology without robust institutions can produce isolated successes but not broad-based prosperity. Rule of law, transparent governance, and merit-based allocation of resources determine whether funds become breakthroughs or sinkholes. Innovation must be inclusive: widening access to quality education, broadband, and finance reduces regional disparities and builds public support. Ethical guardrails, privacy, security, dual-use controls, sustain trust at home and credibility abroad. Geopolitically, technological sovereignty is desirable, but insularity is costly; strategic openness, diversified partnerships, and standards leadership often deliver better resilience than autarky. Measuring progress with honest metrics, patents of quality, productivity gains, export complexity, diffusion to SMEs, and improved public services, keeps rhetoric anchored to outcomes. Ultimately, prosperity follows societies that convert ideas into widely shared improvements in living standards.