And they have spawned business.
Still, the Daiwa deal spawned business that more than tripled IBM Japan's outsourcing revenue.
They had no interest in the US Chamber of Commerce; instead, they built the Social Venture Network, which spawned Business for Social Responsibility and Net Impact and started a decades-long conversation about the role of business in society.
Done right, Web services could spawn business ecosystems, with each firm doing what it does best and leaving the rest to partners.
And fewer academic discoveries spawn businesses.
One-fifth of American start-ups are linked to universities, and great institutions like Stanford and MIT spawn businesses by the thousand.
The net effect, he said, would be "to encourage the conglomerates to trim down their spawned businesses and focus on one particular industry".
His new strategy was to encourage more people to start their own businesses, to help existing firms to expand by, for instance, speeding up the spread of broadband, and to seek out new technologies which might spawn businesses.But there are three drawbacks to this approach.
Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: "The Search Industrial Complex").
Intrapreneurship thus rewards both the individual and the institution; even if employees enter the private sector, the institution can claim success in "spawning" new business entities.
That one app spawned a business, called EducationApps, which in turned spawned scores of standalone education apps — more than one hundred in all, covering various subjects and qualifications, which collectively garnered a quarter of a million downloads.
