It is difficult to require innovation or productivity, but they can be encouraged with the right environment. However the right environment, both physical and mental, for each one is distinctly different.
Innovation is finding a new way to "crank the widgets." It happens with happy accidents. Asking a random (seemly innocent question). Interacting with people. Realizing the link between two distant concepts. This is "heads up" work.
Productivity is "head's down" work. Humming along, mostly quiet. Clear crisp boundaries. "Cranking the widgets" is best done without interruption.
It is up to you decide what your job (at the current moment) requires. Is it being innovative or being productive? Then craft the environment that maximizes that potential. Environments, both physical and mental, are all too frequently accidents of time and space reflecting the past rather than the present.
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