One of the best quotes about Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Patty Seybold published these sentences in her blog in 2005- quite impressive:

I see customers co-designing their own products and services. I see customers contributing and building upon each others’ content, designs, solutions and knowledge. I see customers rolling up their sleeves and redesigning our business processes and busi-ness models. In this new “Design It Yourself” world, end customers have become the innovators. They’re the designers of applications, the contributors of content, the customizers of products and services, the promoters of ideas, the inventors of new business models, the builders of entire ecosystems and the change agents for industries. What’s the real business driver in Web 2.0? Use Web tools to unleash customer innovation to let your customers co-design your business (Patty Seybold)