Want your company to remain innovative? Think twice before going public

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 15:20 in Psychology & Sociology

New companies are often successful because they are innovative. In search of new capital, these companies often go public. But does going public affect a company's ability to remain creative and at the cutting edge -- the very qualities that allowed it be successful in the first place? A new study says yes. According to the study, when companies go public, they actually innovate more -- but their innovations are far more conservative and less groundbreaking than before.

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