Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk taking and innovation.
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- noun business, management A person
employed to workindependently within acompany in order tointroduce innovation and torevitalize anddiversify itsbusiness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was able to become an "intrapreneur" by identifying a unique and non-traditional approach for this company to reach top students from across Canada to achieve its campus goals.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Dave Wilkin 2010
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Whether you are an entrepreneur with an idea, or an intrapreneur working inside of a small or large company looking to grow, or maybe just a mother of two children, desperately trying to figure out how to balance a family budget with too much month left, at the end of your money, then this vision is for you.
John Hope Bryant: Silver Rights and Generation Entrepreneurship: What a President With Vision Can Do John Hope Bryant 2011
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Whether you are an entrepreneur with an idea, or an intrapreneur working inside of a small or large company looking to grow, or maybe just a mother of two children, desperately trying to figure out how to balance a family budget with too much month left, at the end of your money, then this vision is for you.
John Hope Bryant: Silver Rights and Generation Entrepreneurship: What a President With Vision Can Do John Hope Bryant 2011
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The best way to launch your career as an intrapreneur is to come up with a clever concept that will move your organization forward in some way.
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Using the resources and capabilities of the larger firm, an intrapreneur transforms a good idea into a profitable venture.
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An intrapreneur doesn't quit her job to do her own thing.
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"It is critical to learn how internal accounting works," says Avi Deitcher, a New York-based intrapreneur who created a wireless messaging service while working at a large financial institution.
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To get the perspective of a social intrapreneur and BoP leader, I asked Peter Eliassen, current VP of Sales and Operations at
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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Meanwhile, recent reports here, elucidate the 'how-to' of becoming a social intrapreneur.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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As intrapreneur everyone can make a difference in their organization; no matter if big or small.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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One person I spoke to called it "corporate entrepreneurship"—not in the LinkedIn way where you're an "intrapreneur" innovating within your company, but in the sense that you're using your corporate presence to subsidise your real work.
The death of the corporate job. Alex 2025
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