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.
SANTALUCÍA IMPULSA celebrates the ninth edition of its innovation program
Santalucía's innovation program reaches its ninth edition supporting entrepreneurship projects, internal ones too.
DKV will implement four innovative solutions from its intrapreneurship program
Four ideas born from the workforce move on to implementation: the complete journey the Innovar IN method pursues.
Santander drives internal talent with AI: more than 3,400 employee ideas
A global initiative combining workforce ideas and artificial intelligence to filter them: the same ground as the Innovar IN demo.
Winners of the DOMINION 2026 Intrapreneurship Program
Another example of a large company institutionalizing its internal challenges and rewarding its intrapreneurial teams.
Mapfre drives internal innovation with Linces, its intrapreneurship program
The Spanish insurer keeps its own program to turn employees into intrapreneurs.
Google: “20% time”, put in writing in 2004
The founders' letter in the IPO prospectus put it in black and white: “we encourage our employees to spend 20% of their time on what they think will most benefit Google”. A documented nuance: Gmail is often cited as a fruit of that 20%, but its creator, Paul Buchheit, denies it: “it was an official assignment; I was supposed to build a mail thing” (Time interview, 2014). The program's continuity has been the subject of public debate.
3M and its “15% culture”, the precursor
3M says that since about 1948 it has encouraged its people to spend 15% of the working day following their own ideas with company resources. It is the direct precedent of Google's 20% and of modern intrapreneurship.
IBM Innovation Jam: 100 million dollars for workforce ideas
After its great 2006 ideas “jam” — employees, clients, partners and universities — IBM invested 100 million dollars in 10 new business lines. A direct precedent: listening at scale and funding the best.
Adobe Kickbox: a red box with 1,000 dollars to test your idea
Adobe gives any employee a “red box” with a 1,000-dollar card and a method to validate their idea without asking prior permission. In 2015 it open-sourced the format (Kickbox open source) so other companies can adopt it.
Atlassian ShipIt: a 24-hour internal hackathon
Every quarter, Atlassian's workforce drops its tasks for 24 hours to work on what excites it, in cross-department teams. Nearly 20 years and around the 60th edition: internal innovation as a ritual, not a campaign.
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