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Intrapreneurship, growth through innovation
The intrapreneurship index was presented to the EU in mid-2021. Designed to determine your level of intrapreneurship and how to improve.
The definition of intrapreneurship
In 1985 Pinchot introduced the term intrapreneurship: “Intrapreneurs are dreamers who do. Those who take responsibility for creating an innovation of any kind within an organisation”.
For the first time, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship were separated as different types of activities
The current definition is widely accepted: Intrapreneurship is a system that allows an employee to act like an entrepreneur within a company or other organisation.
Three terms are central in this definition:
- System: there is a structure
- Allow: there are specific rules
- Entrepreneurship: there is entrepreneurial behaviour, but is it operated form ownership
Intrapreneurship is a lot more than innovation or the promotion of an idea box. Intrapreneurship is a deliberate strategy to grow through innovation AND the commercialisation of new business opportunities.
More specially, our definition of intrapreneurship is: The ability of an organisation to generate disruptive innovation and the…
