IST Institute
The Institute for Strategic Innovation and Technology Management is the competence center for innovation and strategy. Research focuses on Strategic Transformation, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Startups, Ambidextrie, Agility and Digitalization.

Embedded entrepreneurial teams (corporate entrepreneurship) are a concrete option for implementing the ambidexterity necessary for sustainable success within a company. Such cross-functional, semi-autonomous teams focus on developing strategic innovations to establish new business areas that arise in parallel with the optimization of the core business in the parent organization.
Workshop contents
Ambidexterity through corporate startups
- Introduction to the concept of embedded entrepreneurial teams for building strategic innovation
- Designing entrepreneurial teams
- Leadership & staffing of entrepreneurial teams
- Profile of the employed entrepreneur as team leader
- Design guidelines for implementing corporate startups to address strategic innovation issues
- Implementation in the existing organization
- Presentation of practical examples