I'm looking at it more through the lens of commercialization.
One country I love to look at is Germany. They have a very strong entrepreneurship ecosystem. Their innovation is very good within industries, because they typically have an inventor-centric approach. Within companies, employees are incented to invent, because they know they're going to have some stake in it. That also incites the manufacturing industry to be more vibrant.
Germany is a nice country to look at.