Technological innovation governance for winning the future

► Japan and South Korea have led and now China and India are showing the miracle of technological innovation governance. ► We need to adopt a managerial taxonomy of technological system components utilized by enterprises; ► We should promote public-private-partnerships for targeted specialization in emerging industries; ► We need to complement research-university-linked incubators with metropolis-based innovation hotspots; and ► We should mandate the application of a prioritized choice criteria function for technological innovation governance.