This chapter covers the following objectives:
- The importance of implementing strategies and practices that foster innovation.
- The challenges and pitfalls of managing corporate innovation processes.
- How corporations use new venture teams, business incubators, and product champions to create an internal environment and culture that promote entrepreneurial development.
- How corporate entrepreneurship achieves both financial goals and strategic goals.
- The benefits and potential drawbacks of real options analysis in making resource deployment decisions in corporate entrepreneurship contexts.
- How an entrepreneurial orientation can enhance a firm’s efforts to develop promising corporate venture initiatives.
