I will even make another concession: Institutional inertia is indeed a way of life in the area, and there is no reason to expect that it will go away any time soon. but what if we look at things from another perspective? Rather than trying to focus on a specific industry in, say, the global high-tech universe, would not all these bureaucratic agency and ministry find it easier to review their own laws, take steps to stabilize their populations, rectify their most glaring economic, social and gender inequity, and support entrepreneurial activity in the informal sectors of their economics? Would not they find it more productive to foster an environment of trust-one in which, say, the government helps cut transaction costs so local firms will be willing to work with other company? domestic and foreign, to acquire a little of knowledge and a few of the resources they need to complete?