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Chapter 2
Intrapreneurship: Corporate
Entrepreneurship
2.1 Introduction
“Sooner or later your competitors will slow your sales, and prots
will begin to evaporate. The solution is Intrapreneurship.”
Some of the world’s most successful companies, including 3M, Anaconda-
Ericsson, GE, Lockheed, Intel, Apple Computers, Rubbermaid, Google, Sony,
Toyota, Thermo Electron, Medtronic, and IBM, are all enthusiastic supporters
of intrapreneurship. Could that be their secret of success?
2.2 Denitions
An intrapreneur is an innovator within an existing, large company.
In their inuential 1978 publication, Gifford Pinchot III and Elizabeth
Pinchot
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coined the ...