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Managing Innovation and
Fostering Corporate
Entrepreneurship
Chapter Twelve
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should have a good understanding of:
LO12.1 The importance of implementing strategies and practices that foster innovation.
LO12.2 The challenges and pitfalls of managing corporate innovation processes.
LO12.3 How corporations use new venture teams, business incubators, and product champions to create an internal environment and culture that promote entrepreneurial development.
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Learning Objectives (cont.)
LO12.4 How corporate entrepreneurship achieves both financial goals and strategic goals.
LO12.5 The benefits and potential drawbacks of real options analysis in making resource deployment decisions in corporate entrepreneurship contexts.
LO12.6 How an entrepreneurial orientation can enhance a firm’s efforts to develop promising corporate venture initiatives.
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Managing Innovation
Innovation using new knowledge to transform
organizational processes or create commercially viable products and services
Latest technology, results of experiments, creative insights, competitive information
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Types of Innovation
Sustaining innovations extend sales in an
existing market, usually by enabling new products or services to be sold at higher margins.
Disruptive innovations overturn markets
by providing an altogether new approach to meeting customer needs.
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Challenges of Innovation
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Managing the Pace of Innovation
Incremental innovation May be six months
to two years May use a
milestone approach driven by goals and deadlines
Radical innovation Typically long term
– 10 years or more Often involves
open-ended experimentation and time-consuming mistakes
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Rules for Fostering Innovation
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Exhibit 12.3
Focused Approaches to Corporate Entrepreneurship
New venture group a group of individuals, or a division within a
corporation, that identifies, evaluates, and cultivates venture opportunities.
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Focused Approaches to Corporate Entrepreneurship
Business incubator supports and nurtures
fledgling entrepreneurial ventures until they can thrive on their own as stand-alone businesses.
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Entrepreneurial Culture
Culture of entrepreneurship Search for venture opportunities permeates
every part of the organization Strategic leaders and the culture generate a
strong impetus to innovate, take risks and seek out new venture opportunities
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Product Champions
Product (or project) champions Bring entrepreneurial ideas forward Identify what kind of market exists for the
product or service Find resources to support the venture Promote the venture concept to upper
management
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Measuring the Success of Corporate Entrepreneurship Activities
Exit champions individual working within a corporation who is
willing to question the viability of a venture project by demanding hard evidence of venture success and challenging the belief system that carries a venture forward.
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Real Options Analysis
Real options analysis for each investment step the investor has the
option of (a) investing additional funds to grow or accelerate, (b) delaying, (c) shrinking the scale of, or (d) abandoning the activity.
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Dimensions of EntrepreneurialOrientation
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Exhibit 12.4