People always say "oh if you had this or that system we would be so much more innovative", but it's all wishy-washy unprovable statements pulled from 3rd hand sources. If you distill the problem down to it's essentials you are asking "how do I design (human in the loop) AGI", and until you can write a program for it, it will remain an artform, and the success or failure of art depends entirly on it's cultural context.

Rather than p(r)aying for the smartest people who have ever been born, design a corporation that can have the average high school dropout work in R&D and you will print money, innovation and goodwill.