Podcasting is the new reading. Our busy way of life and versatility of podcasts makes them a great tool to enlarge your knowledge, get useful tips and get inspired. At Corporate Lab we love them too, and our team is constantly throwing recommendations, especially regarding podcasts on innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, and business disruption. And today, we want to share it with you too. Here you have our favorite 12 podcasts about innovation. 

Innovation Takes Guts 

Hosted by Brais Comesaña, Innovation Takes Guts consists of a series of interviews on corporate innovation. But these are not regular interviews - Brais’ guests are innovation experts coming from the most relevant companies in Spain and not only, and from completely different sectors.

If you want to learn how large corporations tackle innovation, this is your podcast. Here, you will learn how an innovation department is organized, what are its objectives regarding innovation, what are the barriers to disruption, how to measure innovation projects, and much more.

📅Frequency: Bi-weekly
🗣️Language: Spanish
▶️Available on: Spotify, iTunes, Youtube
🎙️Hosted by: Brais Comesaña
💡Created by: Corporate Lab
🔖Topics: Corporate innovation, corporate venturing

Growth

Formerly known as En.Digital, the Growth podcast features every topic related to digital business. Every week, you can learn about business, startups and digital marketing thanks to José Carlos Cortizo -its host- and its guests.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: Spanish
▶️Available on: Spotify, iTunes, Youtube
🎙️Hosted by: José Carlos Cortizo
💡Created by: Product Hackers
🔖Topics: Business growth, digital marketing, digital transformation

Insurtechies

Insurtechies talks innovation within a very particular sector: insurance. Hosted by Bruno Ferrari -cofounder of 123Seguro-, this podcast analyzes the insurtech sector with a focus on Latin American companies.

📅Frequency: Biweekly
🗣️Language: Spanish
▶️Available on: Spotify, iTunes
🎙️Hosted by: Bruno Ferrari
💡Created by: 123Seguro
🔖Topics: Insurtech, digital transformation

Itnig: Historias de startups

The Itnig podcast explores some of the most prominent startup success stories in Spain. Throughout its interviews with the protagonists of these success stories, Itnig delivers answers to the most tricky questions, numbers on the startup life, and tips to help and inspire other startup founders or entrepreneurs.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: Spanish
▶️Available on: Spotify, iTunes and Youtube
🎙️Hosted by: Bernat Farrero, Jordi Romero and Juan Rodriguez
💡Created by: Itnig
🔖Topics: Startup, entrepreneurship

Libros para emprendedores

Oftentimes, the information and tips you need lies in interesting books. But the naked truth is reading is a challenge for many business professionals when compared to listening to a podcast - it takes more time and it doesn’t allow you to multitask. That is why Libros para emprendedores is one of the most successful podcasts in the business area.

In each episode, you will find a summary of a book that is suitable for entrepreneurs, innovation managers, marketing professionals, and so on. If you wish to read some of these books, but can’t find the time, this might be the podcast for you.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: Spanish
▶️Available on: Spotify, iTunes and Youtube
🎙️Hosted by: Luis Ramos
💡Created by: Luis Ramos
🔖Topics: Business, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, sales, etc.

Life on Mars

Life on Mars is a show where you will find insights on technology, digital transformation, startups and entrepreneurship. Even though this is a Spanish podcast, Life on Mars’ guests include CEOs and founders from all over the world, willing to share their tips and anecdotes on how they reached entrepreneurial success.

📅Frequency: Biweekly

🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify, Youtube
🎙️Hosted by: Various
💡Created by: MarsBased
🔖Topics: Innovation, entrepreneurship, startups

How I Built This

How I Built This explores the stories of the world’s best innovators and entrepreneurs. Based on their success stories, its host looks for the keys of their business. This podcast not only focuses on startups, digital transformation or tech. Here you will find stories from all different sectors, and we’re sure they will inspire you even if your companies don’t look alike.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes
🎙️Hosted by: Guy Raz
💡Created by: NPR
🔖Topics: Business, startups, entrepreneurship.

FYI - For Your Innovation

FYI - For Your Innovation is one of those podcasts that is completely focused on disruptive innovation. While some podcasts on innovation cover broader topics, disruptive innovation is the absolute protagonist here. If you wish to learn more about this type of innovation, here you will find interesting insights related to companies' experiences, technological breakthroughs, but also media and debates on the topic.

📅Frequency: Biweekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify
🎙️Hosted by: Various
💡Created by: ARK Invest
🔖Topics: Disruptive innovation

Innovation Answered

The Innovation Answered podcast explores every topic regarding corporate innovation, and aims to answer innovation answers for large and well-established companies. This podcast presents various formats: analysis on innovative companies, interviews with relevant innovators, and much more. 

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud
🎙️Hosted by: Kaitlin Milliken
💡Created by: Innolead
🔖Topics: Corporate innovation

Killer Innovations

Many podcasts on innovation concentrate their efforts on interviewing experts on the topics and analyzing real-life stories. But what about hearing about habits and tips to become more innovative? Killer Innovations is a podcast that gives you some serious tips on how to overcome your own barriers to innovation. If you wish to unleash your creativity and become the next innovation leader, this is your show.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud
🎙️Hosted by: Phil McKinney
💡Created by: Killer Innovations
🔖Topics: Innovation, creativity

The School of Innovation Podcast

This class-inspired podcast aims to educate the general public on innovation. Throughout interviews with experts on the topic, The School of Innovation podcast explores venture building, disruptive innovation and related topics in a classroom format.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud
🎙️Hosted by: Yaniv Corem
💡Created by: The School of Innovation
🔖Topics: Innovation, creativity

The Innovation Show

The Innovation Show features interviews with experts in innovation and change-makers: inventors, scientists, authors, business experts, professors, and much more. This podcast goes beyond innovation linked to tech and business. It is rather the story of humanity looking for constant change and improvement. Listening to the experiences of such leaders will educate you in innovation and inspire you to unleash your own potential.

📅Frequency: Weekly
🗣️Language: English
▶️Available on: iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud
🎙️Hosted by: Aidan McCullen
💡Created by: Aidan McCullen
🔖Topics: Innovation, creativity

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At Corporate Lab, we're experts in innovation. Corporate Lab is a venture studio specialized in creating new startups for large corporations. And yes, we also have our own podcast on innovation: Innovation Takes Guts. 

If you run a company and want to include corporate innovation in your roadmap, send us a message. We can detect new business opportunities and build new businesses to complement your existing ones.

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