Corporate Entrepreneurship
What you'll learn
Understand corporate entrepreneurship and the intrapreneurial mindset within organisations.
Recognise how organisational structures, cultures, teams, resources, and internal systems enable or constrain intrapreneurial performance.
Apply corporate venturing, innovation ecosystem thinking, and sustainable renewal approaches to support organisational growth and transformation.
Skills you'll gain
- Sustainable Development
- Resource Allocation
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Organizational Leadership
- New Business Development
- Team Management
- Organizational Change
- Business Transformation
- Resource Utilization
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Culture Transformation
- Sustainable Business
- Team Building
- Strategic Thinking
- Resource Management
- Organizational Strategy
- Organizational Development
- Corporate Strategy
- Organizational Structure
Details to know
June 2026
1 assignment
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There are 3 modules in this course
The CREO Corporate Entrepreneurship course introduces corporate entrepreneurship as a way for organisations to generate innovation, renew internal capabilities, and respond to change from within. Learners will explore the intrapreneurial mindset, strategic behaviour, organisational tensions, innovation ecosystems, corporate venturing, team formation, and sustainable organisational renewal.
This course is designed for employees, team leaders, managers, innovation teams, and internal venture champions working inside organisations who want to lead new products, services, or improvements from within. It is especially relevant for those navigating internal politics, resource constraints, stakeholder alignment, and corporate innovation systems. By the end of the course, learners will gain a clear understanding of how intrapreneurial individuals, teams, and companies can turn internal ideas into structured innovation, manage organisational complexity, and support long-term growth and transformation.
This module introduces the intrapreneurial mindset and how individuals create strategic value from within organisations. Learners will explore intrapreneurial capability, engagement, execution, resource mobilisation, value creation, and the organisational tensions that shape internal innovation. The module also examines how intrapreneurs navigate politics, culture, conflict, and strategic constraints while contributing to organisational renewal.
What's included
16 plugins
16 plugins•Total 320 minutes
- Framing Intrapreneurship Through Role and Strategic Value•20 minutes
- Intrapreneurial Capability•20 minutes
- Strategic Behaviour in Intrapreneurship•20 minutes
- Case Study — The Decision Beyond the Platform•20 minutes
- Drivers of Intrapreneurial Engagement•20 minutes
- Enabling Intrapreneurial Execution•20 minutes
- Mobilising Resources for Intrapreneurial Performance•20 minutes
- The Architecture of Intrapreneurial Performance•20 minutes
- Intrapreneurial Value Creation within Organisations•20 minutes
- Intrapreneurship and Organisational Progress•20 minutes
- Company Costs of Intrapreneurship•20 minutes
- Individual-Level Dynamics of Intrapreneurship•20 minutes
- From Strategic Intent to Intrapreneurial Execution•20 minutes
- Navigating Political Dynamics and Conflict in Intrapreneurial Contexts•20 minutes
- Navigating Cultural Tensions and Systemic Conflict in Intrapreneurial Contexts•20 minutes
- Case Study — When Strategy Remains Unchallenged•20 minutes
This module focuses on how companies build the structures, cultures, teams, and systems needed to support intrapreneurship. Learners will examine innovation ecosystems, venture discovery, team formation, venture programmes, corporate venturing, strategic positioning, and sustainable innovation. The module also explores how organisations manage tensions between optimisation and exploration while building long-term renewal capacity.
What's included
20 plugins
20 plugins•Total 400 minutes
- Ecosystem – Organisational Structure•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Organisational Culture•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Venture Discovery•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Team Formation•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Venture Programmes•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Support Structure•20 minutes
- Ecosystem – Sustainable Development•20 minutes
- Internal Innovation System Framework•20 minutes
- Corporate Venturing•20 minutes
- Strategic Exit Optionality•20 minutes
- Execution Frictions in Corporate Venturing•20 minutes
- Commitment Credibility and Knowledge Integration•20 minutes
- External Strategic Positioning Framework•20 minutes
- Case Study – The Persistence of Non-Obvious Outcomes•20 minutes
- Innovation Filtering Mechanisms•20 minutes
- Structural Tension between Optimisation and Exploration•20 minutes
- Sustainable Innovation as Temporal and Systemic Shift•20 minutes
- From Operational Improvement to System Transformation•20 minutes
- Intrapreneurship for Sustained Organisational Renewal•20 minutes
- Case Study Venmo and the Transition from Growth to Control•20 minutes
This module includes the final course assignment
What's included
1 assignment
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- Final Course Assignment•20 minutes
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