One of the scourges of internal innovation teams is that existing divisions of the company want to impose “taxation without representation.” They often want control over the project (because they are afraid of negative consequences to the status quo), but they don’t want to provide funding for the project (because they would much rather invest in the short-term things that are working today). This combination gives rise to the problem outlined in Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma.
