Let's say you work for a big corporation. And you come up with an idea that may be worth billions. But you don't share your idea with your employer, like you are supposed to. You leave the company to profit from the idea on your own.
This probably happens more than once a year, possibly due to poor incentives. I wonder if there is a term for this in business? What's taking place from the point of view of the big corporation: "innovation capture failure" or some such?
It is an intellectual property theft-related loss event. There is no catchy or shorter phrase to describe it. This is the general situation described by OP:
A significant percentage of the IP related risks that an organization faces originates within the organization itself due to the activities of its own people. Sometimes it is due to a lack of awareness and education of IP by employees, other times it is a deliberate act.
In enterprise risk management, it is considered a type of operational internal loss event. Depending on the exact type of IP loss, from the point of view of the corporation, it would be described as any of the following (see Table 1):
loss of intellectual property, loss of IP monetisation, infringement of intellectual property, litigation effort and expense.
