Social entrepreneurship/Social entrepreneur

< Social entrepreneurship

A social entrepreneur is someone who engages in social entrepreneurship.

What is a Social Entrepreneur?

  Social entrepreneurship/Social entrepreneur is a stub. Learn how you can help Wikiversity to expand it.

Suggested Definitions

Feel free to add definitions of your own.

A Social Entrepreneur is an individual who uses socio-cultural means in an unique, innovative and sustained manner to attain socio-cultural valued goals, as a result of which significant socio-cultural (and systemic) change is brought about which is considered to be an improvement on a previous socio-cultural condition (Senekal)

See Also

Examples of Social Entrepreneurs

Characteristics of Social Entrepreneurs[1]

Social entrepreneurs are unique individuals from a variety of professions, in a variety of countries, with powerful ideas around improving quality of life in the short, medium and long term. There are some qualities which many social entrepreneurs seem to share:

Inspiration

Can I be a social entrepreneur?

References

  1. ↑ Bornstein, David. How to Change the World, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004.

Further Reading

This article is issued from Wikiversity - version of the Friday, February 12, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.