Open Entrepreneurship

Open Entrepreneurship is a term promoted by Björn Paulsson and Jonatan Rogby Lindberg, founders of the OpenEntrepreneurship.com web startup. The concept is related to empowering open and free (as in freedom) entrepreneurship, crowdsourced entrepreneurship, free and open sharing of information and experience in entrepreneurship, and helping other entrepreneurs realize their dreams and visions. The goal of Open Entrepreneurship is to help solve our problems, and create a better world together.^[1]

The concept is related both to Open Innovation, and the Open Source movement, but has its own properties that separates it from those two concepts. Where Open Innovation is mostly for big companies who want to share R&D information and trade patent licences, Open Entrepreneurship is both for SME:s and big business, as well as the lone minipreneur or visionary working on a grand idea.

Because it is difficult to implement a great idea alone, Open Entrepreneurship was created as a term, concept, and web platform to help address this problem. By having an open approach to information sharing and teamworking, it will be possible to create open teams around ideas, while creating ways of building those teams in an open way so that everyone can still choose to take part in the economic return from the efforts. Open Entrepreneurship can also be non-profit, where an open team of crowdsourcing entrepreneurs attempt to solve a problem together, each adding their unique skills, resources and network connections.

References

1. ^ http://www.openentrepreneurship.com