Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk taking and innovation.
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- noun business, management A person
employed to workindependently within acompany in order tointroduce innovation and torevitalize anddiversify itsbusiness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was able to become an "intrapreneur" by identifying a unique and non-traditional approach for this company to reach top students from across Canada to achieve its campus goals.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Dave Wilkin 2010
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Whether you are an entrepreneur with an idea, or an intrapreneur working inside of a small or large company looking to grow, or maybe just a mother of two children, desperately trying to figure out how to balance a family budget with too much month left, at the end of your money, then this vision is for you.
John Hope Bryant: Silver Rights and Generation Entrepreneurship: What a President With Vision Can Do John Hope Bryant 2011
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Whether you are an entrepreneur with an idea, or an intrapreneur working inside of a small or large company looking to grow, or maybe just a mother of two children, desperately trying to figure out how to balance a family budget with too much month left, at the end of your money, then this vision is for you.
John Hope Bryant: Silver Rights and Generation Entrepreneurship: What a President With Vision Can Do John Hope Bryant 2011
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The best way to launch your career as an intrapreneur is to come up with a clever concept that will move your organization forward in some way.
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Using the resources and capabilities of the larger firm, an intrapreneur transforms a good idea into a profitable venture.
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An intrapreneur doesn't quit her job to do her own thing.
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"It is critical to learn how internal accounting works," says Avi Deitcher, a New York-based intrapreneur who created a wireless messaging service while working at a large financial institution.
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To get the perspective of a social intrapreneur and BoP leader, I asked Peter Eliassen, current VP of Sales and Operations at
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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Meanwhile, recent reports here, elucidate the 'how-to' of becoming a social intrapreneur.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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As intrapreneur everyone can make a difference in their organization; no matter if big or small.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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