No, not really. If the situation is anything like that in math, physics, chemistry or computer science, unless you put in your 10k hours into it, your odds of coming up with a new idea are remote.
I don't believe that to be true as ideas can something come from integrating knowledge of different fields.
An anthropologist that learned a new paradigma about human reasoning from studying the way some African tribe reasons about the world can reasonable bring a new idea into computer science. He will need some knowledge about computer science but no 10k hours.
In http://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think David Chapman describes how he used AI problem by using various tools.
When takling one problem the problem wasn't that difficult if you had knowledge...
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