When it comes to promptness small business startups have an edge over large corporations. Big corporations sit on resources which startups can only dream of. The mixture of entrepreneurial action with corporate skill may seem like a perfect match, but often goes unused. This article analyzes how large corporations from the technology industry have started to tap into entrepreneurial initiation through startups.
Most examples are taken into account to derive four models mostly used to participate with new organizations and also describe their features, challenges and reasoning. While corporate equity is the key mechanism behind more recognized models, equity is replaced by newer approaches with shared technology to join both worlds with fewer organizational prices. This informative article presents a typology of corporate mechanisms to participate with startups that balance speed and agility against control and tactical direction, to map the ways businesses can bridge the difference between themselves and the startup world.
PUBLICATION DATE: March 01, 2015 PRODUCT #: CMR588-PDF-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS
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