Christoph Selig research deals with corporate entrepreneurship as a tool for radical innovation and strategic renewal. Focusing in the interface between embedded entrepreneurial teams and the corporate, the corporate entrepreneur seems to be one key success factor of corporate entrepreneurship initiatives. In that stream of research, he is currently building a representative sample of intrapreneurship cases that aggregates in-depth data from more than 70 corporate startups teams and more than 300 interviews. Based on that, he is identifying critical elements of the successful corporate entrepreneur as well as examining leadership practices at the interface of corporate organizations and embedded entrepreneurial teams.