Introducing the `intrapreneur¿: Successful innovators in large companies sometimes function as in-house entrepreneurs, running projects as independent innovators would

A few corporations are realizing that innovation comes more easily to small organizations and they are beginning to foster their own intracompany entrepreneurs, or `entrepreneurs´. Entrepreneurs get ideas for products. They take responsibility for the implementation of a product, put together a development team, and oversee the enterprise until it becomes a successful business within the parent company. A big company has access to considerable financial and technical resources, and the entrepreneur can draw on technical expertise in a large company that would not be available in an independent new business. The qualities that are thought to characterize a good entrepreneur are listed.