Can your native tongue affect your nation's success?

I'd love to know if any research has been done on this. It does seem to have been established that being bilingual, or being brought up in a bilingual environment, at the very least boosts your mental agility (see http://www.livescience.com/culture/090413-bilingual-smart.html, for example).

And this made me wonder whether the intellectual demands of a particular language can actually affect a country's performance on the world stage, in terms of economic output, the propensity to come up with new inventions, or the tendency to nurture or discourage entrepreneurship.

For example, might the stereotypical German efficiency be due in part to the relative complexity of German grammar? Does fluency in Chinese, with its extra layer of difficulty (at least for English-speakers!), based on a falling or rising intonation, help you to think in different ways? Does speaking Japanese, which seems, to me at least, to be a highly logical and efficient language, make you better at thinking logically and efficiently?

And what of English? Grammatically, it has become relatively simple, and yet it is still difficult to master, largely because of its idiosyncrasies. It is certainly not the most logical language, although it is arguably one of the most flexible and expressive. Quite what that might mean for native English speakers is difficult to imagine!

Of course, the effect, if there is one, will also be working in the other direction, and it's natural to suppose that culture affects the development of language just as much as, if not more than, language affects culture.

And even if language does affect whole nations in this way, it is just one of many factors, so testing the idea would be far from easy. Still, I wonder if anyone has tried...?