SpaceX would never of existed without NASA pioneering the technology and paying a lot of money to support them. The intercontinental railways also heavily leaned on government, huge gifts of land and a lot of government corruption. Some American Senators were referred to the Senator from railroad company (replace the name with an actual company). Phones have been heavily government regulated since the early 20th century when the government forced inter-operation, government even nationalized the phone company at one point. Unix was invented by the heavily regulated phone company, government forced them to do research.
Public transport was taken over by the government to prevent them from going out of business as they couldn't compete with the combination of automobile companies and their government pets (roads and laws to encourage automobiles over the type of city where (privately owned) public transport worked.
Going back further, a lot of advancement was encouraged by government as it was in the national interest, shipping, mining etc were important for military purposes.
Even computers were government driven, from doing the census to putting a man on the Moon, not to mention all the military uses.
Sometimes it was government driving industry, sometimes it was industry capturing government, either way government was involved.