{
  "id": "strategic-industry.kept",
  "term": "strategic industry",
  "sense": "kept",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "An industry a collective self reads as a condition of its autonomy, narrowing its boundary so that only its members may keep control of it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "industry.economic",
      "autonomy.self-governed",
      "control.ability",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "read.information",
      "condition.state",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "member.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "An industry the group depends on becomes part of its edge: control of it from outside would read as others setting the group's walls, so the group keeps it inside.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "dependence turned into an edge",
      "ownership read as a wall"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The US Committee on Foreign Investment reviews foreign purchases of American companies for risks to national security.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "national-champion.carrier",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a national champion carries reach outward; a strategic industry is kept inside for autonomy"
    },
    {
      "id": "dependence.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a strategic industry is where dependence on outsiders would set the group's walls"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "strategic industries",
    "strategic industry",
    "strategic sector",
    "strategic sectors"
  ],
  "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-strategic-industry.kept"
}