Can you find specific policies that produced a specific result, like innovation? Then, are those policies transferable to different cultural/political climates

Can you find specific policies that produced a specific result, like innovation? Then, are those policies transferable to different cultural/political climates to produce the same result? If you stick to results like innovation, I think you'll be hard pressed to find the former, and its pretty much the latter. Look at hack days at companies. A really innovative company holds a really successful hack day. Are innovative companies doing hack days to drive their innovation? Or are hack days the result of other factors that drove innovation? Should leadership of a company with innovation stagnation hold hack days? Or, is that just following the cargo-cult antipattern?