That I mostly agree with. Free trade certainly dictates a better set of rules to innovate for - what will people want, but innovation itself is separate from capitalism, I think. You can look at inventions like the printing press or vaccines that have ancient Chinese origins, but which found enormous application in the western world. The inventions, the ingenuity to create, to solve a problem is not a mechanism of capitalism, but free trade certainly knows what to do with a good thing once you've put it together.