Incubation of innovation in large corporates works well for “Horizon 1” types of initiatives, where you can rely upon your existing teams, capabilities, metrics and processes, but what happens if you need to move past Horizon 1 and take your innovations beyond the core?

Everything becomes more complex as you move towards new business models and markets and aim to build more disruptive ventures; this is where the ‘excubation’ model comes in.

Excubating innovation means relying on an “external womb” to bring your beyond-the-core concepts from ideas to impact, protecting them by the corporate “antibodies” of “too small, different, too risky” and growing them until they are big enough to be re-incorporated. External entrepreneurs, working with selected corporate “intra-preneurs” and often financed by professional investors, can be the solution to succeed in Horizon 2 and 3 innovations.

Join the CEO of Innoleaps Group, Alceo Rapagna, to learn more about using this approach to help successfully scale your ventures.

Alceo Rapagna is Senior Partner and CEO of Innoleaps Group - the innovation company active in startup acceleration and open innovation services with Startupbootcamp, in corporate innovation and venture building with Innoleaps and in digital talent recruiting and secondment with The Talent Institute.

Alceo was formerly Chief Digital Officer of OTB Group (1.5B€ fashion group with brands as Diesel, Marni, Maison Margiela), Chief Digital Officer of RCS Mediagroup (1.2B€ publisher with titles as Corriere della Sera, Gazzetta dello Sport, El Mundo, Marca) and Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company (European lead Marketing & Sales and Consumer Practices).

An active angel investor, Alceo is cofounder and equity partner of the venture club Moffu Labs (40+ investments, including the fintech unicorn TrueLayer).
Alceo sits on the board of Mondadori, a leading European book publisher listed on the Milan stock exchange, and of many startups and scaleups.