The country can still produce innovative things even if the people do not want to adopt them.
Its an attack from both sides, though. Monied established interests systemically manipulate the economy through the state to prevent competition and innovation from gaining traction, while the people are indoctrinated into anti-intellectual and anti-progress ideologies and thus personally resist change.
Both are done for a profit motive, so the real problem is probably the simplest to acknowledge but the hardest to solve - corruption.
Its an attack from both sides, though. Monied established interests systemically manipulate the economy through the state to prevent competition and innovation from gaining traction, while the people are indoctrinated into anti-intellectual and anti-progress ideologies and thus personally resist change.
Both are done for a profit motive, so the real problem is probably the simplest to acknowledge but the hardest to solve - corruption.