Hong Kong’s CyberPort—a business development for information technology and services companies—illustrates some of the hazards of public-private ventures. Most notably, Hong Kong officials blundered not in their forward-looking aspirations, but in their antiquated assumptions about how knowledge is disseminated.

Benjamin C. Ostrov is a professor at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research.
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