Any country that tries to stop innovation will have a much harder time ahead that those who embrace change and are able to create an ecosystem for their economy to grow.
This. The French are always terrified of innovation and keep trying to ban new things - and it's resulted in them having an unemployment rate of 8.9%. Because there are no new businesses emerging to replace the old dying ones.
Most people are afraid of innovation, just look at what happened with computers, at the beginning no one wanted to use computers and now if you refuse to use them you are going to be fired, however people were right about their fears for this new technology computers have replaced humans in many jobs and they will keep doing that for a long time, so I cannot blame those people that are fearful of innovation.