HBR's List of Audacious Ideas for Solving the World's Problems. Zzz LU - The For-Benefit Enterprise. The Social Entrepreneurship Zone. Social Entrepreneurship and a New Model for International Dvpt in the 21st century. G Dees. A Tale of Two cultures - charity, problem solving and the future of social entrepreneurship. Creating Social Value. Accès à l’énergie : créer un produit ne suffit pas, encore faut-il le vendre. Cet article a été rédigé par Frédéric Haas* Les questions autour de l’accès à l’énergie propre dans les pays en développement ont gagné ces dernières années un auditoire croissant tant dans le monde associatif qu’auprès des entreprises de l’énergie.
Les innovations de procédés et de commercialisation sont essentielles pour accéder aux marchés BOP. De multiples initiatives privées tentent de venir combler l’échec des autorités publiques dans leur mission d’électrification du pays. Ces actions adoptent souvent une approche par le produit, en développant un système de connexion au réseau électrique, un solar home system ou un foyer amélioré.
L’environnement des marchés BOP exige que la fonctionnalité du produit soit abordée sous un angle nouveau et réponde à un cahier des charges exigeant. Le travail le plus délicat, et pourtant le plus essentiel, concerne désormais la mise sur le marché de ces produits. . (1) "Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part", TedTalk Pittsburght, novembre 2011.
What Makes Social Entrepreneurs Different - Bright B. Simons. By Bright B.
Simons | 8:00 AM January 11, 2013 When social entrepreneurs say that they want to “work themselves out of a job” they are not making a glib statement to sound cool. They are merely stating the obvious — they want to fundamentally solve the problem that their solution is designed to address. Commercial entrepreneurs are different. They’re out to standardize a business model. As a result, social entrepreneurs are more interested in understanding the social, economic, political, and cultural context of the problems they are trying to solve than traditional entrepreneurs are.
It is unthinkable, for instance, to imagine a social entrepreneur treating research on the health effects of tobacco use the way the tobacco industry, market analysts, and investors did in the 1960s and ’70s. That is why social entrepreneurs were among the most enthusiastic popularizers of concepts like C.K. That’s because the stakes are higher for social entrepreneurs.
Social Entrepreneurs. They are unusual businesspeople – innovative and creative.
And they want much more than just growth and profit: social entrepreneurs are working to make the world a better place. Their public-spirited goals combine financial know-how with a vision. What differentiates a social entrepreneur from other businesspeople is the ability to pursue social projects and realise new ideas – and ideally make money with them. Increasingly, social entrepreneurs are filling in the gaps and solving the problems that governments don’t address.
And they aren’t just doing it in what is still called the developing world, but in Germany as well. In cooperation with the Schwab Foundation, which honours social entrepreneurs all over the world, you can get to know these idealistic businesspeople on GLOBAL 3000. Émilie Meessen.