Productive Economy, Contributory Economy

11No Societal Transformation Without Digital Sovereignty

11.1. Protecting land, but also souls and knowledge

The king’s privileges came in return for his responsibility to protect the land and its occupants. Kings had little interest in crafts. Public authorities did not take an interest in industry and its rise to prominence until it became financially and socially established.

In recent decades, the Republic has delegated the development of the entrepreneurial fabric to finance.

At least that is what the fact that we have not had an independent Minister of Industry for several decades tells us. The consequence is the passive destruction of the entrepreneurial fabric. We do not produce enough on our territory.

The Ministry of Finance, which oversees the Ministry of Industry, is focused on its wealth redistribution functions and relatively little on strategies to protect value-creating capacities. This is a sad result at a time when international predators have become particularly aggressive with weapons that are difficult to accept, such as extraterritoriality abused by the United States or the opaque maneuvers of China.

This mistake, however, opens up the possibility of rebuilding a business fabric adapted to the new deal of the circular economy. To tackle this stage, it would be more prudent to recreate a Minister of Industry and another of Innovation, capable of protecting cultural, environmental and societal heritage, and building and implementing development strategies. ...