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Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship is known as the practice of a corporate management style that integrates risk-taking and innovation approaches, as well as the reward and motivational techniques, that are more traditionally thought of as being the province of entrepreneurship. Corporate entrepreneurship is a more general term referring to entrepreneurial actions taking place within an existing organization whereas Intrapreneurship refers to individual activities and behaviors.

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  • Definition
  • History
  • Employee intrapreneur
  • Individual characteristic of the intrapreneur
  • Company characteristic for intrapreneurship
  • Examples
  • Challenges
  • Recognising Intrapreneurs
  • Why is Intrapreneurship a contemporary issue and how do practitioners apply the knowledge?
  • Reception
  • See also
  • Notes
  • External links

Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship is known as the practice of a corporate management style that integrates risk-taking and innovation approaches, as well as the reward and motivational techniques, that are more traditionally thought of as being the province of entrepreneurship. Corporate entrepreneurship is a more general term referring to entrepreneurial actions taking place within an existing organization whereas Intrapreneurship refers to individual activities and behaviors.

==Definition==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “intrapreneurship” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.