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social entrepreneurship  

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  • Social entrepreneurship refers to the use of entrepreneurial skills and practices to achieve social missions and goals. Social entrepreneurship involves pursuing opportunities to create social value by developing innovative solutions to meet social needs, deploying resources in novel ways to stimulate social change, or launching new enterprises aimed at generating positive returns to society. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Venture Management; Social Entrepreneurship]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_entrepreneurship

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