News and documented cases
Current news about internal innovation and intrapreneurship, plus the best-documented public precedents. Everything links to its original source with its date. Our own articles are in the blog.
Yahoo! Hack Day, the precedent of internal hackathons
In 2006 Yahoo! held its Hack Day: employees building prototypes in 24 hours, one of the precedents of the hackathon culture that later spread across the sector.
LinkedIn [in]cubator: pitch your project to management
Launched in 2012: any employee can form a team and present their project to management once a quarter; those approved receive protected time to develop it. An explicit human filter, like the committee in the Innovar IN method.
Spotify: how they organize their Hack Week
Spotify's engineering team published its guide to organizing hack weeks: periods in which people leave their usual work to explore their own ideas and present prototypes.
Dropbox Hack Week: back to the roots
Dropbox institutionalized its Hack Week, a week in which any employee prototypes whatever they want, with editions documented on its official blog since 2014.
Google creates Area 120, its internal incubator
In 2016 Google launched an incubator for its own employees' projects; its name, Area 120, pays homage to “20% time”.
Facebook: hackathons as company culture
Facebook executives explain the role of their internal hackathons in the company's culture: marathon sessions in which prototypes of new features have been born.
Netflix Hack Day: experimenting without fear
Netflix's Hack Day invites its teams to build and show experimental features in a few hours; some ideas end up inspiring real product.
Wayra, ten years: 800 startups and €285M in business
Founded in 2011, Wayra is Telefónica's open-innovation accelerator: EXTERNAL startups it invests in. It is not internal intrapreneurship; we cite it precisely to mark the difference: Innovar IN works the talent already inside the company.
Microsoft Global Hackathon: the world's largest private hackathon
According to Microsoft, its annual hackathon has brought together more than 73,000 employees and interns worldwide; winning teams present their projects to management and some receive funding to continue.
Intuit and its “unstructured time”
Intuit documents its unstructured-time program: a part of the working day dedicated to projects chosen by people themselves.
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