Scaling Social Entrepreneurship
Scaling Social Entrepreneurship
Lessons Learned from One Laptop per Child
The cover image is by Svilen001 at FreeImages.com.
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The Hult Prize is an annual international case competition for university students to solve social problems through social entrepreneurship. (Photo by author)
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"Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming.
Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be."
Albert O. Hirschman
"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela
“The state, the embodiment of deliberately organized and consciously directed power, ought to be only a small part of the much richer organism which we call “society” and
… the former [state] ought to provide merely a framework within which free
…collaboration of men has the maximum scope.”
F.A. Hayek
“It is not because he is a leader of industry that a man is a capitalist; on the contrary, he is a leader of industry because he is a capitalist. The leadership of industry is an attribute of capital….”
Karl Marx
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forward ……………………………………………………………………………………….……………… 6
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Chapters
I- The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century …………………… 16
II- - Government and the Public Good……………………………………………………………… 24
III- Non-profit Foundations and Their Influence on Social Entrepreneurship …... 29
IV- Social Entrepreneurship Defined ……………………………………………………………… 37
V- The Three Models of Social Entrepreneurship ……………………………………………. 46
VI- Social Entrepreneurship Should
Lessons Learned from One Laptop per Child
The cover image is by Svilen001 at FreeImages.com.
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The Hult Prize is an annual international case competition for university students to solve social problems through social entrepreneurship. (Photo by author)
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"Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming.
Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be."
Albert O. Hirschman
"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela
“The state, the embodiment of deliberately organized and consciously directed power, ought to be only a small part of the much richer organism which we call “society” and
… the former [state] ought to provide merely a framework within which free
…collaboration of men has the maximum scope.”
F.A. Hayek
“It is not because he is a leader of industry that a man is a capitalist; on the contrary, he is a leader of industry because he is a capitalist. The leadership of industry is an attribute of capital….”
Karl Marx
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forward ……………………………………………………………………………………….……………… 6
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Chapters
I- The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century …………………… 16
II- - Government and the Public Good……………………………………………………………… 24
III- Non-profit Foundations and Their Influence on Social Entrepreneurship …... 29
IV- Social Entrepreneurship Defined ……………………………………………………………… 37
V- The Three Models of Social Entrepreneurship ……………………………………………. 46
VI- Social Entrepreneurship Should