Social Entrepreneurship

• Social Entrepreneurship


  Entrepreneurship that is a form that exhibits characteristics of non-profits, governments, and businesses
• Social Entrepreneurship


  • Combination of private-sector focus on innovation, risk-taking, and large-scale transformation with social problem solving
• The Social Entrepreneurship Process

  1. Recognition of a perceived social opportunity translated into an enterprise concept

  2. Resources are acquired to execute the enterprise's goals
• Social Entrepreneurs


  A person or small group of individuals who founds and/or leads an organization or initiative engaged in social entrepreneurship
• Other terms for Social Entrepreneurs


  • Public entrepreneurs
  • Civic entrepreneurs
  • Social innovators
• Social Entrepreneurs


  • Creative thinkers continuously striving for innovation in technologies, supply sources, distribution outlets, or methods of production
  • Change agents who create large-scale change using pattern-breaking ideas to address the root causes of social problems
• Driven by social goals

  • Challenges are presented regarding the boundaries of what is and what isn't a social enterprise
  • Social causes can be based on personal goals
  • General agreement that there is the desire to benefit society in some way
  • Arguments can begin over the location of the social goals and with the purposes of the social goals
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship


  • Focus on the preservation of nature, life support, and community
  • Pursuing opportunities to bring into existence future products, processes, and services for gain, including economic and noneconomic gains to individuals, the economy, and society
• Forms of Sustainable Entrepreneurship


  • Ecopreneurship - Environmental entrepreneurship with entrepreneurial actions contributing to preserving the natural environment, including the Earth, biodiversity, and ecosystems
  • Social Entrepreneurship - Activities and processes undertaken to discover, define, and exploit opportunities in order to enhance social wealth by creating new ventures or managing existing organizations in an innovative manner
  • Corporate Social Responsibility - Actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by later and often denotes societal engagement of organizations
• Ecopreneurship


  • Ecovision - A leadership style that encourages open and flexible structures that encompass the employees, the organization, and the environment, with attention to evolving social demands
  • Environmental Movement - Initiated primarily by values rather than by design
  • Developed by a plan to create sustainable future
• The Social Entrepreneurship Movement