PetersT., “Get Innovative or Get Dead,”California Management Review, 33/1 (Fall 1990): 9–26.
2.
For a thorough study of this phenomenon, see FloridaR.KenneyM., The Breakthrough Illusion (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1990). This book is important reading for those interested in further exploring the dysfunction of the innovations-transfer process in traditional and entrepreneurial U.S. companies.
3.
Peters, op. cit., pp. 9–10.
4.
FloridaKenney, op. cit., p. 72et seq.
5.
For an early description of Hoyle's cosmology, see HoyleF., The Nature of the Universe (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1950). A more recent and thought-provoking book on current cosmological theories is the popular HawkingS.W., A Brief History of Time (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1988).
6.
PinchotG.III, Intrapreneuring (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1985).
7.
Peters, op. cit.
8.
Peters, op. cit., p. 15.
9.
This does not mean that we can circumvent the question of ownership of intellectual property, only that we are led to the property through the intellect, not vice versa.
10.
Another fraction is reserved for staff members of the parent corporation who have helped form the start-up and assisted its growth to affiliate status. Majority control remains with Teknekron.
11.
The 40% growth rate of Figure 1 refers to growth of units in which Teknekron maintains an interest, and therefore does not include private-sale spin-outs after their sales.
