In my experience, the leadership and their motivation have been the biggest hurdle for the innovation and research for the company I work for. My company produces products that are widely used and very successful in their niche. This has been due to the innovation that the leadership has provided. However, they have been in that mindset and position for so long the motivation for innovations and adapting new ideas decreases drastically. The focal point is more towards efficiency in manufacturing and the active culture of research and development become vestigial. Fortunately, there have been small changes made and there are talks about hiring new engineers for the department. Hopefully, new personnel will kickstart the old active innovation culture.