Promoting Entrepreneurship 2024

Lessons learnt from research on Corporate Entrepreneurship

In today's rapidly changing business environment, fostering a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship and collaboration is critical to increase competitiveness for both established companies and startups. Our 2024 edition of Promoting Entrepreneurship focused on the power of collaboration between these two forces: uncovering the latest findings on corporate entrepreneurship and fostering a discussion between researchers, founders, and innovation managers.

The key to a successful win-win partnership lies in open communication and understanding how to leverage the other's strengths. While startups bring agility and disruption, corporations offer resources, credibility, and access to their knowledge.

Corporate entrepreneurship: Driving growth for startups and companies

Boost your organization with intrapreneurial innovation

Connecting Corporate Entrepreneurship research to startups and companies

Organized by the EEI, and led by Georg Chondrakis, together with EEI’s researchers, professors from other top universities, entrepreneurs, founders, professionals, and investors, we discussed how data and knowledge are vital to empower innovation.

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We uncovered the latest findings on corporate entrepreneurship and fostered a discussion between researchers, and several profiles of the Barcelona entrepreneurship ecosystem (from founders to investors and managers).

George Chondrakis, Professor at Esade and Director of the Esade Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI)
Oriol Alcoba, Director General of Industry, Generalitat de Catalunya
Dimo Ringov, Assoc. Professor at Esade and Head of the Esade Scale-up Center
Katharine D’Amico, Academic Director of Executive MBA Programs at Esade Business School
Quino Fernández, CEO & Co-founder of AticcoLab
April Franco, Assoc. Professor of Economics and Strategic Management at the University of Toronto
Marta Antúnez, Director at Wayra Barcelona
Anthony Vallance-Owen, Senior Investment Manager at We Venture Capital
Brendon Merkley, Strategic Advisor at Goodleap

Corporate entrepreneurship is a key strategy to promote innovation, increase competitiveness and fuel success for both companies and startups. However, which types of collaborations can startups and corporations have? Should companies feel threatened or consider startups a partner? How can established businesses help startups grow? What are the 3 big mistakes in corporate entrepreneurship? Which are the main best practices working with big companies? What are the benefits of working with corporations for startups? How can corporates help startups accelerate & grow?