Entrepreneurship
http://www.economist.com/business/management/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13565718&source=hptextfeature
The selling of the Post-It note (see article) by Spence Silver, an employee of 3M, is one of the classic and most quoted examples of intrapreneurship. 3M has been particularly successful at encouraging intrapreneurs. It maintains that the first thing you have to do is to create a corporate culture which permits ideas to blossom. 'You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince,' the company told The Economist. 'But remember, one prince can pay for a lot of frogs.'
Spot on. The main constraint on entrepreneurs today is a shortage of finance, not of ideas.
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