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intrapreneurial

Definitions

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  • adjective Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.

Etymologies

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Intra- (a prefix signifying in or within) + (entre)preneurial, influenced by the homophonic quality of intra-/entre-.

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Examples

  • To restore lost jobs, big business is going to have to take risks again -- and that means investing in both internal, "intrapreneurial" ventures, and, in a venture mode, also investing in external new start-ups.

    Entrepreneurs Can Lead Us Out of the Crisis 2009

  • There is a growing school of thought that dynamic organizations even if they remain large, must simultaneously try to find ways of doing things in a competitive way within themselves, fostering what are sometimes called 'intrapreneurial' units.

    Stabroek News 2009

  • There is a growing school of thought that dynamic organizations even if they remain large, must simultaneously try to find ways of doing things in a competitive way within themselves, fostering what are sometimes called 'intrapreneurial' units.

    Stabroek News 2009

  • If they sign on, your intrapreneurial venture could catapult you to a new level of success in your organization and make you more valuable to the firm.

    'Insider' Entrepreneurs 2009

  • The intrapreneurial story of Scott Gatz, a Yahoo product manager and a skunkworks RSS project shipped Jan 04: Early on, people in the company had said “you really ought to look at RSS”.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • The intrapreneurial story of Scott Gatz, a Yahoo product manager and a skunkworks RSS project shipped Jan 04: Early on, people in the company had said “you really ought to look at RSS”.

    Yahoo + RSS : "We purposely kept it hidden and just let it leak out to the blogosphere." Ben Barren 2006

  • However, also intrapreneurial initiatives that take results of a pilot project in social impact measurement from a team level to advocate among top management could contribute to a change in organizational measurement culture.

    NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010

  • The book presents open innovation as a broad framework, including also concepts like developing ambidextrous thinking, creating an intrapreneurial attitude, and getting a systemic and holistic view on the firm.

    Mass Customization & Open Innovation News 2009

  • Orange’s “intrapreneurial” engagement platform, idClic, totally changed the way the company innovates by supercharging the employee suggestion box.

    The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

  • Orange’s “intrapreneurial” engagement platform, idClic, totally changed the way the company innovates by supercharging the employee suggestion box.

    The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

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