# strategic industry (kept)

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.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [industry](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-industry.economic), [autonomy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-autonomy.self-governed), [control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-control.ability), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [condition](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-condition.state), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social)

**Through:** 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
- The US Committee on Foreign Investment reviews foreign purchases of American companies for risks to national security. *(economics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-strategic-industry.kept.json*  
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