Innovation = copy the current knowledge + add the new knowledge
You don’t reinvent the wheel.
You learn by copying the current knowledge base from your favorite institution, and then you follow that institution’s rules to advance and innovate the future course.
If you copy the approach/knowledge from Mohammad Ali’s Egypt, then you become another basket case version of Egypt.
If you copy the current approach/knowledge from Japan, then you become as prosperous as Japanese. However you must keep up by charting future roads using your own brains.
If you copy the current approach/knowledge from China, then you become as prosperous as Chinese. However you must keep up by charting future roads using your own brains.
If you copy the current approach/knowledge from modern day Germany, then you become as prosperous as Germans. However you must keep up by charting future roads using your own brains.
If someone who copies the approach/knowledge from Hitler’s Germany, then he/she may become Nazi.
If you copy the current approach/knowledge from modern day South Koreans, then you become as prosperous as S. Koreans. However you must keep up by charting future roads using your own brains.
The choice is yours.