ATP198: Kapil Kane - Director Innovation Intel China Asia Tech Podcast

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[00:05] Welcome Kapil Kane to Asia Tech Podcast Stories. Kapil Kane is Director of Innovation at Intel China and founder or Intel's internal "Ideas2Reality" innovation accelerator.

[00:55] What is intrapreneurship and what role do internal business accelerators like Intel's Ideas2Reality play in helping these companies stay competitive?

[07:15] Intel, like most IT companies, organizes business units around KPI (Key Performance Indicators). How can this be a challenge when encouraging long term innovation?

[09:20] How did the innovation start? And how did it get support within Intel?

[13:35] Is there ever a risk putting lots of entrepreneurs into the structured organization?

[20:25] What are the early signs, which identifies that, that person is going to be successful in this program?

[23:10] Do you think that some people just can't make it as an entrepreneur?

[25:35] What other kind of applications, within Intel or outside of Intel, have impressed you?

[30:55] Can you take the internal corporate accelerator model with all its lean thinking and apply it radically different sectors like government, health care and education? Would it work anywhere?

[36:10] You need to create one big story before you go big...

[38:30] We can't talk about innovation without talking about China... What's happening at the grass roots level of innovation in the Chinese tech ecosystem?

[39:10] What's hot in innovation, right now, in China?

[44:05] People can connect with Kapil on WeChat, ID is "master_k."