Corporate Innovation and Intrepreneurship – The Future of Disruption

This is our second episode of Season Two in the Live Lounge Podcast Series, where we discuss Corporate Innovation and Intrepreneurship – The Future of Disruption. Learn about how enterprise level companies are leveraging Venture Capital firms to source start-ups; to manage and incubate products, supply chain and operational innovations.

Mediator: Jill Smith, Managing Director in China of Iris Worldwide

Panel:
Carol Zhou, Head of Shiseido China Business Innovation & Representative Office
Brian Tam, Creativity Consultant, Let’s Make Great!
Summer Xia, Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Startups China
Luuk Eliens, Head of Innovation at XNode Corporate Start-up Innovation Accelerator
Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel and Co-Founder of Ideas2Reality

Chapters

• 1:05 The role of the entrepreneur and start-ups within Intel (Kapil)
• 3:02 The process of internal start-ups (Kapil)
• 4:23 How does internal culture prevent innovation from happening? (Kapil)
• 6:31 As a third-party, how do you manage the institutional systems? (Brian)
• 8:24 Creating environment conditions where people feel ownership? (Luuk)
• 9:38 How does it work in Microsoft for Start-Ups? (Summer)
• 11:57 The next phase of transformation at Shiseido and its start-ups culture (Carol)
• 15:38 What the appetite for failure in big corporations like Shiseido? (Jill/Carol)
• 17:06 How we manage this at Intel (Kapil)
• 19:56 Innovation as a service. It’s not about KPIs (Summer)
• 20:46 We don’t have the luxury of no KPIs (Carol)
• 22:20 How did the partnership work with the third-party? (Kapil)
• 24:10 Entrepreneurs working inside the business (Luuk)
• 25:45 The difference between working with multi-national and Chinese private or State-Owned business in China (Luuk)
• 28:25 Social innovation and innovation for impact (Brian)
• 32:20 Sustainability as a business asset and China’s progress (Luuk)
• 34:04 Microsoft for startups looking at how AI can help society (Summer)
• 34:27 Shiseido and the ‘for good’ movement (Carol)
• 35:28 What are the first steps in kick-starting the innovation process? (All)
• 40:20 Audience question: Is intrepreneurship really taking the same risk as entrepreneurship? (Brian)
• 41:30 Audience question: How is China doing ‘innovation’ differently from other markets? (Kapil/Luuk)
• 44:02 Close