Interaction between specific personal components of entrepreneurial culture of social enterprise founders and support and stimulation instruments for social enterprises in the United Kingdom

The author analyzes the interaction of specific personal entrepreneurial culture components and the instrument to support social entrepreneurship as the UK highly innovative sector. Based on the analysis, the basic concept of building efficient interaction is proposed, and its strong points applicable to the emerging innovative support infrastructure of social entrepreneurship in Russia are specified.

On-the-job innovations: The findings of the nationwide survey

The findings of the research project of monitoring innovative behavior carried out by the National Research University Higher School of Economics (as of 2019) are presented. The review of the studies of employees’ innovative activities and the key factors of these activities precedes the analysis.

Maturity level of internal communication environment management and company’s efficiency

The introduced method of evaluation of the corporate internal communication environment is based upon the author’s maturity model. Within the study, the key intangible factors (motivators) were identified as a maturity model component. The survey of top executives in the business services sector was carried out to analyze maturity model influence on business performance. The author argues that empowerment (expansion of employees’ rights and possibilities) influences performance significantly. Practical recommendations are given on how to increase maturity level in managing corporate internal communication environment to achieve better results. Building efficient corporate internal communication environment is the vital task for innovative companies with dominant and increasing intellectual property in value added. The best practices of Russian hi-tech companies demonstrates that implemented business competence model, single communication and learning space and social interaction instruments make the most efficient mechanisms for building internal communication environment to facilitate innovations.

Innovations in telecommunications companies

Based on the analysis of innovative activities of telecommunications companies, the relevant set of instruments is specified, i. e. In-house VC incubators, external accelerators, partnerships in research & innovations, hackathons, etc. These instruments contribute to building the corporation’s entrepreneurial culture, finding entrepreneurs within the company, selecting their projects for implementation in the best interests of the company.

“The youth pill” for corporations: Building and managing startups in the context of entrepreneurial culture (the case study of partnerships between startup companies and research and production organizations)

The Russian corporation have been increasingly cooperating with promising startup companies. This rejuvenation reenergizes and stimulates the corporations that for some reasons are unable to build entrepreneurial culture (internal innovations) independently without compromising their corporate culture. The hackathons, thematic contests of developers and similar activities make a kind of “pharmacies” for corporations to rejuvenate them systematically with startups (external innovations). The experience of establishing and managing startups within the framework of business partnerships with research organizations and innovative companies is discussed.

How to train employees to work with “open innovations” and other elements of corporate entrepreneurial culture

The basic types of cooperation between startups and corporations are discussed, e. g. purchase of technologies or businesses, employment, and investments to develop a shared product. The most frequent problems of technological implementation are analyzed, e.g. employees’ low motivation and unawareness of project performance, bureaucracy, irrelevance of the company’s innovation strategy.