TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the Parallel Use of Multiple Corporate Entrepreneurship Units
T2 - 29th International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, ICE 2023
AU - Heinzelmann, Nicolai
AU - Freitag, Thomas
AU - Ortt, Roland
AU - Baltes, Guido H.
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) units have become an increasingly important part of established companies' development activities enabling them to also create more discontinuous innovations. As a result, companies have developed and implemented different forms of CE units, such as corporate accelerators, incubators, startup supplier programs, and corporate venture capital. Driven by the need to innovate, companies have even begun to use multiple CE units simultaneously. However, this has not been empirically investigated yet. Thus, with this study, we aim to shed some light on this by investigating the parallel use of multiple CE units in the German business landscape. We conducted an extensive desk research, combining, coding, and analyzing different sources. We found that 55 out of 165 large established companies have multiple CE units, which allowed us to characterize the parallel use and identify differences and similarities, e.g., in terms of industry, company size, and CE forms implemented. We conclude by presenting different implications for both practice and research and by pointing out directions for future research.
AB - Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) units have become an increasingly important part of established companies' development activities enabling them to also create more discontinuous innovations. As a result, companies have developed and implemented different forms of CE units, such as corporate accelerators, incubators, startup supplier programs, and corporate venture capital. Driven by the need to innovate, companies have even begun to use multiple CE units simultaneously. However, this has not been empirically investigated yet. Thus, with this study, we aim to shed some light on this by investigating the parallel use of multiple CE units in the German business landscape. We conducted an extensive desk research, combining, coding, and analyzing different sources. We found that 55 out of 165 large established companies have multiple CE units, which allowed us to characterize the parallel use and identify differences and similarities, e.g., in terms of industry, company size, and CE forms implemented. We conclude by presenting different implications for both practice and research and by pointing out directions for future research.
KW - Co-Specialization
KW - Combinations
KW - Corporate Entrepreneurship
KW - German Industry
KW - Support Units
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181159136&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332362
DO - 10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332362
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85181159136
T3 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation: Shaping the Future, ICE 2023
BT - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation
PB - IEEE
Y2 - 19 June 2023 through 22 June 2023
ER -
