Are you sure that person who wrote this works in tech? Any person who actually works in the weeds of high tech should understand that innovation has always been done in steps since it is based on previous research and generations of development. Also, Steve Jobs is a great marketer and visionary, but solelygiving him the title of a "disruptor" is laughable.
If the identity of country and people are removed from the subject these tech and science people would think and behave as you suggested. But once the two factors are brought in, engineers and scientists are not much better than outsiders. The outsiders don't know, the insiders ignore (cherry-picking), it is based on emotion, nobody can get away of it.
I have been in internal meetings when some engineers asked question about "Chinese rival company stealing our secret" when told that our company is loosing market shares to the rival". Thank God, our top boss still has a clear mind. He brushed away that question without going any further, he didn't want to be politically incorrect by debunking the stupid question though. A "friend" of mine working in the market department also hold the attitude of "tech theft, reverse engineering". I work in R&D, personally writing those code to be "stolen", I can say that reading and understanding even the source code of somebody else is a nightmare, let alone the binary code. It often takes less time to write the code from scratch than modifying somebody's work unless you have the original author explaining what he/she did and why.
There are lots of these people in tech world, and without debunking their number will grow, problem is that nobody dare to debunk them by defending the "enemy", not even the top boss, everybody is pushed by the tide.
Lastly, I must say that the word "innovation" has been bloated in recent decades (after 2000) that it has lost its true meaning pretty much as the word marriage in "same sex marriage" or industry in "finacial industry".
