A pple is generally regarded as an embodiment of everything that is best about innovative businesses. It was started in a garage. For years it played a cool David to Microsoft's lumbering Goliath. Then it disrupted itself, and the entire entertainment industry, by shifting its focus from computers to mobile devices. But there is something missing from this story, argues Mariana Maz-zucato of Sussex University in England, in her book, "The Entrepreneurial State". Steve Jobs was undoubtedly a genius who understood both engineering and design. Apple was undoubtedly a nimble innovator. But Apple's success would have been impossible without the active role of the state, the unacknowledged en-abler of today's consumer-electronics revolution.
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