It's a great little story.  There is nothing revolutionary about it.  There is nothing revolutionary about most things that don't win Nobel Prizes for Physics.   You must have missed the parts about: 
1. giving up something old for something totally new, 
2. starting something more or less from scratch in a new place,
3. hiring people in her new country, 
4. creating business opportunities for herself and others,
5. actually going to China or India for business instead of just talking or complaining about it (like very few of us have, try it someday if you want your eyes opened wide,
6.  recognizing she doesn't know everything and adapting as the market changed,
7. having a backup plan

Sounds like the kind of immigrants we need, badly, IMO.  Sure, nice if she had invented a ground-breaking product to manufacture in a defunct steel mill in Hamilton, but perhaps that is around the corner.