Knowledge that informs entrepreneurial practice
Corporate entrepreneurship draws on research across entrepreneurship, innovation, organisation and management. Artefaktum brings these perspectives together in a growing collection of concepts, frameworks and research findings, with future cases exploring how this knowledge is applied in organisational settings.
Research · Concepts · Frameworks
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Bringing market sensitivity into established firms by giving people time to explore, connecting expertise across the organisation, and learning through prototypes as new opportunities take shape.
Leadership and Management
Distributed Leadership shifts influence and accountability towards those with the knowledge, skills and abilities most relevant to the emerging challenge. Upward Leadership and Organic Management broaden this perspective on how people influence decisions and organise entrepreneurial action. The Entrepreneurial Frequency and Intensity Audit helps assess how these approaches translate into entrepreneurial activity.
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Entrepreneurial ownership through the acquisition and development of an existing business.
Internal Venture Capital
How established organisations allocate investment to entrepreneurial initiatives and organise decisions about their funding and progress.
Venture Clienting
How established firms work with startups to create solutions for clients within the organisation.
Audit Entrepreneurial Intensity and Frequency
Assessing how often entrepreneurial initiatives occur and how intensively they are pursued helps organisations examine entrepreneurial activity alongside their leadership and management practices. Explore the audit in Practices ↗
Research foundation
Leadership in Repetitively Innovative Mature Companies
Torkel Tallqvist · Åbo Akademi University · 2009
How do established companies sustain innovation over time? Torkel’s doctoral research explores the role of leadership, drawing on interviews with 24 people involved in innovation across six industrial firms.
