{
  "id": "national-champion.carrier",
  "term": "national champion",
  "sense": "carrier",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A company for which a collective self makes its boundary wider, using its government's power to set the company's walls wider, so its reach reads as the group's own.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "company.economic",
      "power.over",
      "reach.action",
      "make.verb",
      "wide.spatial",
      "use.application",
      "government.administrative",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "read.information",
      "groups.collection"
    ],
    "interaction": "Once a company is read as inside the group's boundary, the government's power over walls is spent on widening its reach, and a gain for the company reads as a gain for the nation.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a company's reach read as a nation's",
      "the group's power spent on one member firm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "France's 1966 Plan Calcul set out to build a French computer industry around one firm, the Compagnie Internationale pour l'Informatique.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "strategic-industry.kept",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a strategic industry is kept inside the boundary for autonomy; a national champion is built up to carry reach outside it"
    },
    {
      "id": "economic-nationalism.firms",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a national champion is one instrument of economic nationalism"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "national champion",
    "national champions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national-champion.carrier"
}