Friday 18 March 2016

Innovation and PLC is it possible?

Advanced innovations within a PLC: is it really possible?  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has a top rating for being well placed to be the world's most innovative company. However, as a public company it is answerable to shareholders that often only care about short-term profit. Big innovations often involve big R&D budgets [costs], risks, and patience over a period beyond the short-term. So innovation can represent a major challenge for a PLC, and perhaps this is what's happening here...

Google sells Boston Dynamics robot company





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  1. Innovation Future Specialist18 March 2016 at 02:59

    The article suggests that Google might not want negative publicity from the robot video, that some might find scary. Though I'm not sure this is the case, surely this would have been foreseen before they bought the robot company.

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