Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited bystarting a new venture for an employer (‘nascent intrapreneurship’) or independently(‘nascent entrepreneurship’). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of Americanadults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascententrepreneurship and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage theirgeneral human capital and social ties to organize ventures which sell directly to customers,whereas intrapreneurs disproportionately commercialize unique new opportunities which sellto other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed....