Curiosity has to come from the top and fall all the way down. As others and you have noted in other comments, its the environment for the workers that sets up whether or not they will even be able to pursue curious things, and that's on the managers to create that environent. However, the managers themselves have bossess too, so that has to trickle up, to their bosses bosses all the way up the chain.

In short, every job needs to be able to have autonomy to enact on the ground solutions for what their immediate team needs. You shouldn't be penalized for going off the reservation and coming back with a creative solution. The problem is corporate structure for the past few decades has been about rooting out this autonomy and anything opaque about job responsibilities. There is a lot that's been done that would need undoing to change those environments, and imo you are better off finding another workplace than bringing about the monumental change required. A mature corporation is like a boulder tumbling down a mountainside; you can hardly change its course much less stop it short of where its heading.