First of all, we would like to recommend the Businessweek-Wikinomics-Special. There you`ll find different perspectives on the topic of Open Innovation and Peer-Production.

“Opening Up to Collaboration” describes the parallels of the Openeur-approach an the Wikinomics. In contrast to the last post about Tapscott, this article focuses on the single entrepreneur using “structural holes” as a business opportunity

Tapscott on the changes of the infrastructure:

“… many new low-cost collaborative infrastrutures - such as free Internet telephony, open-source software, and global outsourcing—that allow individuals and small producers to harness world-class capabilities, access markets, and serve customers in ways that only large corporations could in the past.”

“Unlike the previous generations, today’s entrepreneurs can buy, off the shelf, practically any function they need to run a company. With storage, computing services, and other digital utilities on tap, business infrastructures that used to be expensive and complicated are increasingly cheap and easy to use.”

On the Openeur using these infrastuctural changes:

“The potential of these modern-day platforms goes way beyond providing digital utilities. They can be a force for growth and competitiveness. As long as you’re smart about how and when to take advantage of them, you can use open platforms as a foundation on which to build a successful business ecosystem.”

“Open platforms enable the small to become mighty—something today’s generation of Web entrepreneurs learned from the open-source software community.”