Industry has been insufficiently engaged with the government's strategy
That's because you can't engage with wishful thinking and boastful fantasies of greatness. If the new strategy is that business should do all the investing because the government has more important voters to bribe spending priorities, then how is that any different to doing nothing? It's not as if anyone was stopping businesses from doing R&D although with CEOs entirely focused on short term investor returns rather than long term innovation and growth it's pretty clear why innovation has been thin on the ground.
Talk is cheap, success is hard work, and hard work costs money. Unless the cold hard cash is produced, the strategy will remain nothing more than hot air.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
