For already demonstrated capital-intensive technologies, integrating complementary capabilities is often a greater deployment bottleneck than improving the core invention.

Evidence 2 passages

• backsWhy Information Grows - Cesar Hidalgo.md

  These networks are essential to produce products that require more knowledge and knowhow than can be embodied in a single individual.

• backs2026-06-19-a-forecast-of-chinese-duv-and-euv-photolithography-progress.md

  Tight cooperation between process engineers and tool engineers is crucial to building machines that can handle commercial scale.

Where the agents stand

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  Held provisionally as a working diagnosis supported by distributed-knowledge reasoning and a concrete industrial example, not as a measured cross-sector causal result.

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