Understanding Intrapreneurship

A system that allows an employee to act like an entrepreneur within a company or organization.

Individuals within a company who are self-motivated, proactive, and action-oriented, taking the initiative to pursue innovative products or services.

Using entrepreneurial skills within a company for the benefit of both the company and the employee.

Employees who are self-starters, ambitious, and goal-oriented.

Allowing employees to use their entrepreneurial skills for the benefit of both the company and the employee. Giving employees the freedom to experiment, as well as the potential for growth within an organization.

An entrepreneur who works while being associated with an organization, using company resources.

The one who starts their own company and works independently, arranging for their own resources.

The risk associated is typically minimal for these individuals

The risk associated is typically bigger for these individuals

Able to resolve specific issues, leadership skills, thinking outside the box, taking risks, drives innovation, comfortable being uncomfortable, and able to interpret trends.

Innovate growth, new markets, employee empowerment, optimum human resource utilization, and economic stability.

An idea pitched by a regional manager (Dick Brams) for a new meal just for kids. Later rolled it out its first circus-themed Happy Meal.

Has become so essential to McDonald's business and brand identity that 3 million Happy Meals are sold every day.

A 3M employee (Spencer Silver) invented a sticky adhesive and another employee (Art Fry) discovered when searching for a way to keep pages in his books.

Realizing the product after realizing the potential to share messages around the office. They are now a huge success.

Initially a project that garnered resistance, a junior staff member worked with Nintendo developers to make the PlayStation a reality.

Nintendo rejected the idea, but Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) has become the company's most profitable business line.

The idea that Starbucks, founded in 1971 had a mission to become a "third place" to go, to provide a relaxing environment and experience for its customers. One barista started writing the names of customers on cups.

The idea was shared with the corporate office and 'first-name' approach became a standard. The company has since launched designated advertising efforts to promote this personalized touch.

A person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems.

The main goal is not to earn a profit, but rather to implement widespread improvements in society, still being financially savvy to succeed in their cause.

Microfinance institutions, educational programs, providing banking services in underserved areas and helping children orphaned by epidemic disease.

To connect you to your life's purpose, help others find theirs, and make a difference in the world, all while eking out a living.

Act within government, blend of being a public servant and an entrepreneur.

Multiple, ambiguous, hard-to-measure goals, hard-to-risk taxpayer money, limited managerial autonomy, short-term budgeting, bureaucracy, lack of incentives for improvement.

Is the process of creating value for citizens by bringing together unique combinations of public and/or private resources to exploit social opportunities.

Was developed in the late 1980s to counter excessive government bureaucracy and hierarchy.

Managers be more entrepreneurial and use business-sector, market-oriented principles to improve efficiency.

Catalytic, community-owned, competitive, mission-driven, results-oriented, customer-driven, enterprising, anticipatory, decentralized, and market-oriented.

Would enhance flexibility, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovativeness.

Moves away from using entrepreneurial techniques from business.

States that public administrators are not owners, but stewards of public resources.

Idea generation, selection, implementation, and diffusion.

The process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

Ability to find and act upon opportunities to translate inventions or technologies into products and services.

Refers to an individual who takes advantage of opportunities to influence policy outcomes to increase their self-interests.

Innovative ideas, non-traditional strategies, to influence society, create opportunities, and promote desired policy outcomes.

Has a credential that allows their opinions to be heard over others, a large network of people with political influence, and persistence to be successful.

Individuals who through their creativity, strategy, networking, and persuasive argumentation are able to bring new policy ideas into the open and promote policy change.

Can be seen as the human embodiment of the social construction of policy. Advocates determined, for one reason or another, to fight inertia, the bureaucracy, opposing interests, and anything else in their way to get the idea through the window [of opportunity] and into law or policy.

Someone (usually active in the fields of either politics or business) who founds a new political project, group, or political party.