This is mythical thinking. Frankly, there's just not that many products that need inventing, particularly that need a factory. We are past the era where a revolutionary bread slicer will change society. Most of the actual advancements we are seeing come from grants into general scientific research. Not from some lone Einstein with a vision.

What actually is happening is some of these discoveries are very good and they ultimately get scooped up and patented by some corporate entity that thought the research was marketable.

Recognizing that reality, that innovation basically never comes from the founders of a company, should really lead you to understand what's broken about the US economy.