Given that free speech/free flow of information is a fundamental building block even to economic innovation, I'd say this matters more. You can have all the economic innovation in the world but if it offends a party, it's unlikely to be widely adopted isn't it?

it's not necessarily about who has more it's probably about who has enough freedoms of all kinds

and we have a situation where political freedoms a shrinking every where with different speeds and from different starting points, economic freedoms are moving in different directions all over the world even inside big countries.

without a very complex model of all of it it's nearly impossible to tell what combination is the most favorable to a particular kind of innovation(for example face recognition might be a lot harder to innovate in a country with great political freedoms regardless of economic freedoms).