Social innovation enriches cities and drives their development by enabling improvements to products, services, processes, and methods. In this article, we define the concept of social innovation and explain which factors are essential to the social innovation process. We also examine the stages...

One way by which microentrepreneurs can increase their ability to take debt is to take equity alongside, thus respecting prudent ratios and reducing stress. But microequity has not developed in most of the developing world. At the same time, since 1983, microequity has been started in France...

A survey designed by the authors was administered to Hub members worldwide (N=127, response rate=15.3%) in an effort to better understand the motivational bases of social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship motivation is a topic that has recently begun to receive attention in the social...

Developmental venture capital is the financing of businesses with equity and near-equity in order to achieve both social and financial objectives. The social returns include economic development of distressed urban and rural geographies; creation of high-quality jobs for low-income populations;...

In this paper, I examine the difficulties of launching a Social Enterprise. The key challenge of funding a Social Enterprise Start-Up is to conceive a functioning business model. Social Enterprises are often subject to market failure as they try to provide for public goods or to improve them. I...

Social economy and social entrepreneurship are concepts subject of much debate in the academic environment, as their importance is growing in the present times, when the public sector and business environment alike have demonstrated their incapacity to solve specific social problems, such as...

Social entrepreneurs are celebrated as transformational leaders whose accomplishments create opportunities for those less fortunate. However, little is known about the early stages of social enterprise development. This study focuses on how a nascent entrepreneur's prosocial motivation affects...

This study investigates if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations. Using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, this study assesses the influences...

As a contribution to the discussion of the still young history of social entrepreneurship (SE) in Germany, we want to discuss the relationship between SE and sustainable development by means of four theses. The theses examine an idea, which has held a prominent place in the self-conception of...

There is a wide gap between the wealth of different types of social business support organizations in practice and the academic description of this reality. While social entrepreneurship in general is a growing field and continuous to attract research attention, the description, let alone...