Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Select a company you believe to be an example of a corporate entrepreneurship success story or failure. Using the Innovation Audit of Tidd & Bessant (2011), conduct an evaluation of the corporate entrepreneurship performance of this company over the last 5 years (approx 2000 words). Within this section you should:
Give an overview of the innovative performance of the firm over the last 5 years.
- If the firm is multi national or multi divisional, justify a focus upon one country and / or division.
- Explain the CE strategy of the firm and how this has responded historically to threats and opportunities.
- Explain what sources of innovation the firm has used.
- Explain the processes the firm has used to scan for innovative ideas, select the most appropriate ideas and provide resources to develop and implement those ideas.
- Explain the organizational structure and culture and how it has supported or inhibited CE.
- Explain how the firm has demonstrated learning regarding innovation performance.
- Present an innovation audit for that 5 year period.
Building upon your innovation audit, design a corporate entrepreneurship change programme for this company (approx 1000 words). This should:
- Consider current opportunities and threats and recommend how the firm should address these within your country and / or division of focus.
- Be written for a senior manager from that firm to act upon.
- Build upon relevant sources of evidence such as the result of your innovation audit, approaches used by comparator firms and research from empirical journal articles.
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The total word limit for the coursework is 3000 words.
You may exceed the word limit by 10% without penalty.
Reports that gain higher marks will:
Convince the reader to act.
Provide evidence of reading around the topic and show a good understanding of the key concepts
Include relevant theory and evidence and reference sources accurately.
Critically discuss different viewpoints with arguments carefully developed and clearly expounded
Show originality of thought