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A perfect example!
     A very different example of how ‘letting people off the leash’ enables progress is the BBC’s support for innovation in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, which gave us Colour TV cameras, Teletext and the BBC Microcomputer, amongst other things. That last example led fairly directly to the development of the ARM microchips, which now power 99% of the world’s premium smartphones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Research_%26_Development