Innovation can be sped up by constraining degrees of freedom through pruning and and fertilizing. That is a common top down business approach.
Innovation with more degrees of freedom can occur among peer programmers (Cunningham and Beck) or small groups of dialogic physicists (Bohm).
Some financially successful top down corporations are able to protect some small part of their operations from early pruning or over fertilizing--eg Procter and Gamble.
My hope is that civil society, at neighborhood scale primarily, can multiply and support innovation in the style and manner of peer and dialogic innovation, at rates of trust and friendliness and at the scale of watersheds and neighborhoods.