If you want to figure out why the Industrial Revolution didn't happen somewhere imaginary, you might want to consider those places on Earth where it was import

If you want to figure out why the Industrial Revolution didn't happen somewhere imaginary, you might want to consider those places on Earth where it was imported instead of having happened. That is: comparing to the UK is less interesting than comparing to countries that at that same time didn't transition. I am no historian and Western; as such my view on what happened around that time in Asia, Africa, South-America, Australia is limited. (History class here focuses on the Industrial Revolution). But if there was no IR in any of those areas, surely those would be a better model for investigating the main question.