My opinion:

There's really two types of innovation, one type of innovation which expands the horizons of humanities understanding, things like medical breakthroughs and space exploration,

and another that makes the same work we've been doing more efficient. Think Nickle-Iron batteries over Lithium-Ion for example.

Socialist countries tend to excel at the horizon-expanding innovation because profit motive exists less than the motive for expanding one's own consciousness at the expense at times of efficiency, and in reverse capitalist countries tend to excel at innovation that focuses on efficiency over the expansion of human knowledge