1- Definition of a Social Entrepreneur
According to: http://ashoka.org/
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.
Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are both visionaries and ultimate realists, concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else.
Each social entrepreneur presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it. In other words, every leading social entrepreneur is a mass recruiter of local change makers—a role model proving that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything.
Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur.”
According to: http://ashoka.org/
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.
Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are both visionaries and ultimate realists, concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else.
Each social entrepreneur presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it. In other words, every leading social entrepreneur is a mass recruiter of local change makers—a role model proving that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything.
Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur.”
According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/
“A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors.”
3 - In your opinion, is the concept a trend...or real shift to corporate responsibility?
According to me, Social Entrepreneurship is a real shift to corporate responsibility. In fact, in our society, still lots of “companies” and “businesses” think according to profit, return, performance, MONEY! But the society is in the same time changing. People are more aware of their environment. Actually, people are more thinking of their well being and well being of other people, socially speaking: illiteracy, education, unemployment, poverty…People realize that they have a role to play in the process of optimization of the society. Today, even if we don’t feel that, people are more standing together. And if the organizations which help the society to become better are not link to the government people feel more concerned.Perhaps at the beginning social entrepreneurship was just a trend, but with the time, those social organizations understand and realize that people were more open-minded and concerned by the social problems. That’s why I am saying that today, it is a real shift. Social entrepreneurs have power, and they can do great social advanced without help of the government.
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