Last night, Disruptor’s held a roundtable on the topic of entrepreneurship with participants from the public, private and not-for-profit sector. We discussed the following topics. What does it take to bring new ideas, products, and ways of working into a...
So you’ve heard of the ‘entrepreneurs’, but what about ‘intrapreneurs’? The term ‘intrapreneur’ was first coined in the 1980s when author Gifford Pinchot defined it in his book Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, as...
We have always relied on trust networks for recommendations. As a child, I can still recall my Nan talking about new products to her neighbours over a cup of tea. She would talk about the results – the way that a new washing powder makes “whites whiter”. Or how an air...
