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Stanford Study Finds Companies Get Less Innovative Post IPO
- gatsby 14y agoThis study's benchmark for innovation is "measured by the number of patents filed." It's hard to measure innovation, but going off of just patents alone is ridiculous. That said, I would actually agree that in general, post-IPO innovation slows at most companies, but a lot of it has to due with the lowered levels of risk that the public is willing to assume as opposed to angels and PE/VC firms. Public companies naturally have more regulations and bureaucracy, making it a lot more challenging to release revolutionary products and features than private companies.