Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
This paper discusses the connection between innovation and social entrepreneurship, meanwhile analyzes the two-way relationship between innovation and generating social value in social entrepreneurship. Taking d. light design for example, the exploration shows that innovation is the internal character of social entrepreneurship, which encourages inventing new approaches and advance sustainable solutions to create social value. Furthermore, innovation acts as cooperative mechanism, which further boosts social entrepreneurs decision-making capability and management performance. Correspondently, enhancing social value inspires social entrepreneurs to explore novel business model and develop innovative technical solution. These findings prove there is a natural connection between innovation and social entrepreneurship; both of them will change the reality that 90％ of products and design are done for 10％ of people.
Innovation Social entrepreneurship Social enterprise Social value
Angela J.He Lin Qiao
Peking University,China Tsinghua University,China
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2008(创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
164-166
2008-03-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）