Chapter 13 Strategic Entreprenuership
Chapter 13 Strategic Entreprenuership
14 December, 2024
• Define strategic entrepreneurship and corporate
entrepreneurship.
importance.
• Describe how firms internally develop
innovations.
strategies to innovate.
means of innovation.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
refer to situations or conditions in the marketplace
where new products, services, or innovations can be
introduced to meet unmet needs, solve problems, or
offer improved solutions.
Joseph Schumpeter identified three types of innovation activities often referred to as
the "3 I's" in his theory of economic development. These three types of innovation are:
an individual who identifies opportunities, takes
risks, and organizes resources to create and
manage a new business or venture with the goal
of achieving profit or solving a problem.
Diversification of Risks
Expanding internationally allows businesses to
spread their risk across multiple markets.
•
Innovation often requires the • Incremental innovation refers to Internal Corporate Venturing refers to
the gradual, step-by-step the set of activities firms use to develop
collaboration of employees from
internal inventions and innovations
various departments such as improvement of existing
• Autonomous strategic behavior
marketing, engineering, design, products, services, processes, or (bottom-up process)
production, and IT. Cross - technologies. These innovations refers to the actions taken by a
often result in improved business unit, team, or subsidiary
functional teams help ensure
efficiency, functionality, or user within an organization to pursue its
that all aspects of the product
experience without radically own strategic goals, often with a high
or process are well -integrated degree of independence from the
altering the core product or
and aligned with business market.
parent company's central management.
objectives. • Induced strategic behavior (top -
• Radical innovation refers to the
down decision -making)
development and introduction of the corporate headquarters or senior
entirely new products, services, management typically provides the
technologies, or business direction, resources, and support for
models that significantly disrupt the strategic initiatives of various
existing markets or industries. divisions or units
Firms use cooperative strategies to innovate by
partnering with other organizations to share
resources, knowledge, and capabilities.