It can be difficult to want to stick to learning something when you feel like it stifles your creative and innovative mind, especially when it is something you have to learn in an overly political or bureaucratic organization. However, in the beginnings of the learning process you need a foundation to build on in order for creativity to thrive. Creativity needs the resources from which to build. Learning in one of these organizations can be a necessary experience in order to give you these resources and foundation from which to build.
There comes a point that the learning process can become saturated in these organizations and I believe it comes at different times and in varying levels for everyone. This is the point that most want to "spread their wings" as many say, and use what they have learned to create and innovate on these ideas.
Below is a video TED talk by Rodney Mullen the "The Godfather of Street Skating" that I found quite entertaining. I like how he talks about the transitions he went through coming from an originally creative learning process to a not-so-creative competition life and then back again to a more creative learning process. He built upon the things he learned despite the fact that it wasn't as creative in competition.
http://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_mullen_pop_an_ollie_and_innovate.html
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