Episode 18 – Robert C. Wolcott – Grow From Within

 

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Robert C. Wolcott, one of the featured delegates at the 2010 Innovation and Humanity Summit,  is Lecturer of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. He teaches corporate innovation and entrepreneurship in Evanston and for Kellogg’s Executive MBA Programs in Hong Kong (with HKUST) and Miami. In 2002 and 2005, he served as Visiting Professor at the Keio Business School (Tokyo).

Professor Wolcott’s article, Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship, with collaborator Dr. Mike Lippitz, appeared in the Fall 2007, issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. His article with Mohan Sawhney and Inigo Arroniz, Twelve Different Ways for Companies to Innovate, was the most downloaded article of 2006 from the MIT Sloan Management Review.

His new book, with Dr. Michael Lippitz, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation provides frameworks and tools for new business design, along with advice on how to plan and lead an ongoing innovation program based on a company’s strategic objectives and corporate context.

For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode:

Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg Innovation Network
Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship
MIT Sloan Management Review
Mohan Sawhney
Twelve Different Ways for Companies to Innovate
Inigo Arroniz
Grow From Within: Mastering Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Clareo Partners
Allan Platt
Origin of the word entrepreneur
Keio Business School
Joseph Schumpeter
TJ Rogers
Cypress Semiconductor
University of Chicago
Arizona State University