Corporations kill creativity

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There's a reason Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in their garage: We've stopped rewarding inventors.

Corporate America has grown rigid as it has grown larger. Despite the dot-com era’s many images of creative whizzes reweaving the very fabric of innovation, it remains extremely difficult for the freethinking alchemists of today to perform their peculiar strain of magic and thrive while doing it.

Modern-day American companies, especially large public companies, simply find it difficult to justify the inevitable overage of resources required to foster truly free-form tinkering. Even if they appreciate it, their investors rarely do.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/30/the_tinkerers_how_corporations_kill_creativity/

[liberal_at_heart]

1. they don't have to depend on innovation anymore to get profits

they get their profits from overcharging customers, underpaying employees, sending jobs overseas, and paying politicians to pass the laws they want so they don't have to pay as much in taxes.

[zbdent]

2. plus if an employee comes up with a good idea ... they suck it from them (usually

in the contract between the 'contracted employee' and the corp.).

If someone outside does get a good idea, you bet your *** that there's something which would normally be termed a "frivolous lawsuit" posted against the "creator" which shuts him or her down enough to make the enterprise not worth the fight.

[liberal_at_heart]

5. in those contracts is usually a clause about how they own your

intellectual property. Anything you create in your little brain whether during business hours or not is theirs and it usually extends to a certain amount of time after you've left the company as well.

[Posteritatis]

10. Gotta love those "we own anything you create for years after you quit" clauses. (nt)

[abelenkpe]

3. Yet another reason why they need to be broken up

From time to time. Instead we let them grow larger and wonder why the economy and innovation stagnates.

[MrYikes]

4. and its not only corps, it is universaties also. Closed minds teaching

[Arctic Dave]

6. Corporations stopped doing this years ago.

They just purchase any new company with a better way of doing things and then promptly destroy it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. The first couple of things I invented are now patented by my former boss.

Yeah, fuck corporations.

[Dash87]

8. This is why the Republican philosophy is stupid.

"Monopolies are good and creativity is for crazy people."

These are the same people that think that we will never have any more scientific discoveries, and any further scientific exploration is useless. Near-sighted beyond belief.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. The GOP - Big corporations good. Big government bad.

Yet these idiots don't see the contradiction.