Romer also makes a vital point about a particularly important category of idea, which he calls “meta-ideas”: Perhaps the most important ideas of all are meta-ideas—ideas about how to support the production and transmission of other ideas. . . . There are . . . two safe predictions. First, the country that takes the lead in the twenty-first century will be the one that implements an innovation that more effectively supports the production of new ideas in the private sector. Second, new meta-ideas of this kind will be found.16
