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Questions to answer as part of your submission1. What are the overall strengths of HP’s treatment of Corporate Entrepreneurship? Consider theoverall model of CE, the different structures and organization of new ideas, what happens once a new project has grown, and staffing.2. Despite these strengths, there are still some weaknesses of HP’s approach. What are some of the most obvious ones, and in what ways are they weaknesses?3. HP’s IPO has specific questions/metrics for evaluating new ideas and stages/gates. Do these questions/metrics and stages/gates make sense given the role of the IPO compared to investingin core products and work done at HP Labs? Why or why not?4. One of the overarching directions of HP is to focus on “profitable growth.” To that end, HP increased its gross profit and net earnings each year from 2005 to 2007 (see exhibit 1 in case). Acommon fear of many companies is that investing in innovation will lead to financial losses or involve substantial resource outlays. What specific lessons on “profitable growth” and other financial performance metrics does this case provide?