
We celebrate breakthrough moments while paying far less attention to the years of investment, institution-building and capability development that made those breakthroughs possible.
A chance to tell the years before the breakthrough, not only the breakthrough.
By the time the world notices them, they have usually been built over decades through institutions, talent, engineering discipline and a willingness to invest long before the returns are certain.
A strong opening for a dossier on the institutions behind an industry.