Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Case Study on International Awards

Abstract

The goal of this dissertation is to discover the connection among innovation and social entrepreneurship, to analyze the methods  wherein social entrepreneurship may be innovative, and to apprehend how such innovativeness may be evaluated. In order to finish the studies objectives, six global awards of social entrepreneurship were investigated. A consultant of every corporation has been interviewed and organizational files were researched. The findings display a robust connection among innovation and social entrepreneurship, a courting that may be taken into consideration inherent to the idea of social entrepreneurship. The maximum not unusualplace varieties of improvements amongst social marketers are discovered to be (1) the use and reuse of present property of marginalized groups, (2) the provision of tailor made carrier applications to those in need, (3) commercial enterprise version innovation, (4) incremental technological innovation and (5) the hole of recent markets. Social marketers may be categorised as innovative imitators and consistent innovators. The maximum tremendous gadget of evaluation amongst the investigated corporations concerning the assessment of the relative innovativeness of social entrepreneurship is the usage of experts. These findings shed mild on the subject of social entrepreneurship which, notwithstanding the hobby proven through students withinside the topic, continues to be in its infancy wherein studies is concerned.