this topic has been beaten to death (read these) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_

this topic has been beaten to death (read these) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dil... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor... you have to ask yourself: why would the most talented and/or visionary and/or defiant individuals want to stay at a large company to build new products? Be it in Labs, Spin-outs, Spin-ins, corporate accelerators, skunkworks projects, or what have you. The craziest of the crazy will go out on their own and try to build something. Most will fail. Those that persist eventually combine luck+opportunity and turn their hallucinations into mainstream-disruptive innovations.