This article aims to show how a firm learns from innovation trophies while focusing on a specific category of these trophies concerning symbolic rewards of intrapreneurial projects that were professionally managed but failed for various reasons. It was written after a case study in a big company. The interest of this Trophy of Best Failed Ideas is discussed based on interviews conducted with intrapreneurs and managers. The results suggest that innovation " failures " can serve as a source for organizational learning and some of them should be called " nearlings " to comply with impression management theory.

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管理支持和从创新奖杯中学习：来自法国大型能源公司的见解

本文旨在展示公司如何从创新奖杯中学习，同时重点关注这些奖杯的特定类别，这些奖杯涉及经过专业管理但因各种原因失败的内部创业项目的象征性奖励。这是在一家大公司的案例研究之后写的。根据对内部创业者和管理者的采访，讨论了最佳失败创意奖杯的兴趣。结果表明，创新“失败”可以作为组织学习的来源，其中一些应该被称为“失败”，以符合印象管理理论。