Questions that motivate our investigations:
- How can an engineer create an intrapreneurial innovation within an existing organization?
- What cases are more likely to see success:
- New product categories?
- New operational innovations?
- New areas of diversification, and to what degree?
- How about spin outs and spin ins?
- Later stage strategic changes?
- Does industry type matter, or geography?
- What can go wrong?
- What do the best firms do today to keep their best talent and stay competitive? What are the alternatives incentive structures?
- What techniques from entrepreneurship apply within a firm? When is pure entrepreneurship the better path?
- How well do lean models work for intrepreneurs – at different types and stages of innovation?
- What is the role of open networks or open platforms to empower engineering driven innovations?
- What can management do to empower innovators within the firm?
- What is the best way to collaborate with universities?
- Why and how should firms work to solve societal scale challenges?
- What is the role of policy makers to best support private and public innovation?
- What behaviors need to change in order for the organization or individual see successful innovation?
- How do firms handle the acquisition, storage, and sale of their IP portfolio?
