Outside Inc.

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Pannekoekstraat 98
3011 LL Rotterdam
Netherlands
General information: 

We are the entrepreneurial partner for progressive corporations that want to challenge the status quo. We believe in Corporate Social Entrepreneurship as a driver for societal change and business value.

Why: we believe in positive impact on society by developing impact ventures outside corporate structures.

We live in an era of innovation where inventions not only concern technological breakthroughs, but also involve new business models. These inventions contribute to the transition to new economic systems that pursue positive impact on people and planet. Outside Inc. believes in corporations as a driving force behind world-changing innovations. Corporations hold the key for the transition to new economic systems by seeing societal challenges as business opportunities. However, innovations often do not get a chance to sprout and grow within corporate structures. We believe in unleashing power of corporations and their stakeholders by bringing promising innovations outside the corporation.

How: we are an expert in creating cross-overs between large corporations and start-ups to solve today’s challenges and create new business opportunities.

We believe that by creating unexpected crossovers between corporates and start-ups we bring the best of both worlds together to accelerate the launch of disruptive and impactful innovations. We see employees as a driving force for [entrepreneurial innovation] intrapreneurship and to develop new business concepts. By combining their experience, core competencies and assets with the entrepreneurship, creativity, agility and speed of the ecosystem we empower both, to grow impact ventures. We use modern start-up tools, like the lean startupbusiness model generation and customer development, for validated assumptions and conscious decision making at each gate.

What: together with partners and clients we develop and execute ideation, incubation and acceleration programs to re-invent traditional business and grow impact ventures.

Our partners and clients work with us for the design, set-up and execution of:

  • Cross-sector innovation programs
  • (Social) intrapreneurship programs
  • Startup acceleration programs
  • Innovation bootcamp sessions
  • New venture development

We create shared value for our partners and clients by investing in the development of business concepts and participate in promising and scalable impact ventures.

We are always open to start new initiatives and develop value propositions in the field of corporate social entrepreneurship.

Company information: 
Company type: 
Consulting Service
Industry: 
Management Consulting, Startup Services
Founded when: 
Wednesday, 1 May, 2013
Startup stage: 
Mature stage (being profitable)
Types of jobs in the company: 
Business Development
Total numbers of employees: 
3
Products and Services: 
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship Program

Outside Inc. believes in Corporate Social Entrepreneurship as a driving force for innovation.  We use societal challenges to engage and mobilize “intrapreneurs” within corporates to generate and develop innovative solutions. We challenge corporates to move from a CSR to a CSE (corporate social entrepreneurship) strategy and have developed CSE programs to bring new and ambitious innovations forward. Find out more about our CSE programs in our onepager. These programs are supported by our CSE toolkit which has been developed to define the 1) right strategy related to relevant societal challenges 2) create an enabling environment to spark CSE 3) to provide the necessary means to support the intrapreneurs of your organization to bring new products, services, business models, ventures and initiatives forward.

Our approach considers four stages which shape our innovation strategy. Depending on the stage of innovation and needs of our partners we define the necessary steps to be taken. We offer CSE programs (for intrapreneurs) and acceleration programs (for startups) which cover one or more of the innovation stages, but we also offer specific business development support to instantly boost innovation and entrepreneurship within your organization. Within all of our programs we connect intrapreneurs from within with entrepreneurs from outside to bring the strengths of “big” and “small” together.

Below you find the description of the four stages:

1. Spark

In co-creation we define an inspiring and challenging “call to action” to solve societal challenges relevant to your organization.

1. Scout

We scout and mobilize intra- and entrepreneurs to share and/ or generate innovative business ideas which are potential solutions to the “call to action”.

2. Sprout

We develop and validate world changing business ideas into feasible and sustainable business concepts

3. Spin

We accelerate the innovation process from concept to business plan, corporate venture or start-up.

4. Scale

We launch new enterprises and entrepreneurs by offering tailored business development support which give direction to a successful and sustainable future.

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