Open Innovation

Conclusion

As you will have understood from the general introduction, it is interactions that are discussed throughout this book. I could’ve talked about relationships, but I prefer the term interactions, which I find much more engaging. In my opinion, one can be in a relationship with a person, or even have a relationship with a person, without there necessarily being reciprocity. Interacting presupposes de facto reciprocity. With regard to our subject, the relationship between entrepreneurs and large groups, it seems to me that the term interaction is much more appropriate because there will be friction between mindsets, people and ecosystems.

C.1. The mindset entrepreneur

In hindsight and to get to the point, I believe that an entrepreneur is the alchemy of mental factors. I’m talking about mental factors, not an approach. These mental factors, three in number, shape a person’s entrepreneurial character.

The first of these factors is what I would call the “disruptive spirit”. To become an entrepreneur, we must not accept all or part of a reality that deals with the simplest things, or even complex things. Indeed, how can you imagine, and create if what you imagine and create is not in response to a questioning so strong that it does not leave you. Is entrepreneurship a form of therapy?

The second of these factors is what I would call “wanting to know yourself”. There is not a single entrepreneur that I have come across during all these years who did not have in them the ...